Abstract:The concept of transitional justice has been on an upward trajectory for three decades, attesting to its broad empirical applicability, its analytical potential, and the normative attraction it holds. At the same time, conceptual confusion is widespread as “transitional justice” functions as shorthand for both a specific type of event and the research on these events. The present chapter untangles these overlapping understandings by exploring the multiple genealogies of “transitional justice” as historical eve… Show more
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