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Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

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This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow interpretation of violence within a somewhat artificial time frame and to the exclusion of external actors. The article engages themes of gender, power and structural violence to caution against the narrowing and depoliticisation of transitional justice.

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  • Rosemary Nagy, 2008. "Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 275-289.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:29:y:2008:i:2:p:275-289
    DOI: 10.1080/01436590701806848
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    1. Oettler, Anika, 2014. "The Scope and Selectivity of Comparative Area Studies: Transitional Justice Research," GIGA Working Papers 246, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    2. Eamon Aloyo & Geoff Dancy & Yvonne Dutton, 2023. "Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 60(2), pages 258-273, March.
    3. Salehi, Mariam, 2022. "Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 16(1), pages 98-116.
    4. Carles Fernandez-Torne & Graeme Young, 2023. "Mirroring Truths: How Liberal Democracies Are Challenging Their Foundational Narratives," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-12, August.
    5. Till Foerster, 2013. "Insurgent Nationalism: Political Imagination and Rupture in Côte d'Ivoire," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 48(3), pages 3-31.
    6. Sandra Rubli, 2013. "(Re)making the Social World: The Politics of Transitional Justice in Burundi," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 48(1), pages 3-24.
    7. Navarrete Guzmán, T., 2019. "Transitional justice in Colombia: competing discourses in a peace agreement context," ISS Working Papers - General Series 645, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.

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