Transitional Justice for Foxes

There is a memorable line by ancient Greek poet Archilochus: ''The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.'' Drawing on this metaphor made popular by Isaiah Berlin this book sets out to ''think like a fox'' about transitional justice in an intellectual environment largely dominated by hedgehogs. Critical of the unitary ''hedgehog-like'' vision underlying mainstream discourse this book proposes a pluralist reading of the field. It asks: What would it mean for transitional justice to constructively deal with conflicts of values and interests in societies grappling with a violent past? And what would it imply to make meaningful room for diversity to see ''the many'' rather than just ''the one''?