Transitional Justice Beyond Blueprints: Ethnographies and Case Studies

Transitional justice practice must be context-specific to effect social change, and this book provides an innovative, interdisciplinary understanding of the necessity of context-specific designs for post-conflict redress. It brings together contributions from distinguished scholars to show that disparate historical, cultural, and legal contexts require equally distinct approaches towards social healing.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Advocates and practitioners of transitional justice have long sought a singular model that could anticipate how to coordinate, sequence, and create complementarity between the raft of mechanisms and activities that fall under its banner. However, there has been surprisingly little research that explores how varied dimensions of transitional justice practice can, or should, work together in particular social contexts to effect social change. To address this gap, this book provides an innovative, interdisciplinary understanding of the necessity of context-specific designs for post-conflict redress. Demonstrating that transitional justice practice must necessarily be context-specific, the book brings together contributions from distinguished scholars across the globe in order to show that disparate historical, cultural, and legal contexts require equally distinct approaches towards social healing. In so doing, the book moves towards what the editors have dubbed 'a post-conflict action framework that would allow for immediate interventions that are sensitive to the socio-cultural context they hope to influence.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138241251