Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and aparadigmatic cases. The book defines transitional justice as the pursuit of accountability recognition and/or disruption and applies an actor-centric analysis focusing on justice actors intentions of and responses to transitional justice. It offers a typology of different transitional justice contexts ranging from societies experiencing ongoing conflict to consolidated democracies and includes chapters from all types of aparadigmatic contexts. This covers transitional justice in states with contested political authority shared political authority and consolidated political authority. The transitional justice initiatives explored by the wide range of contributors are those of Afghanistan Belgium France Greenland/Denmark Libya Syria Turkey/Kurdistan UK/Iraq US and Yemen. Through these aparadigmatic case studies the book develops a new framework that appropriate to its expanding reach allows us to understand the practice of transitional justice in a more context-sensitive bottom-up and actor-oriented way which leaves room for the complexity and messiness of interventions on the ground.The book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in the broad field of transitional justice as represented in law criminology politics conflict studies and human rights.The Introduction Chapter 8 and the Concluding Remarks of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.