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Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts Accountability, Recognition, and Disruption

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts

Tine Destrooper, Line Engbo Gissel and Kerstin Bree Carlson

1. Diasporic and Domestic: Leveraging Criminal Accountability for Transitional Justice in the Middle East

Noha Aboueldahab

2. Overcoming the Justice Impasse in Syria

Brigitte Herremans and Veronica Bellintani

3. Imagining Transitional Justice in Turkey’s Ongoing Kurdish Conflict

Nisan Alıcı

4. Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: A Hegemonic Power Discourse

Huma Saeed

5. Unable to See the Forest for the Trees: Transitional Justice and the United States of America

Brianne McGonigle Leyh

6. Transitional Justice in the North Atlantic: The Greenland Reconciliation Commission and the Role of Political Authority

Line Engbo Gissel

7. Transitional Justice and the British Military in Iraq

Thomas Obel Hanssen

8. Divergent Ambitions: Bracketing the Disruptive Potential of Transitional Justice in Belgium

Tine Destrooper

9. Transitional Justice for European Terror Actors: Disrupting Europe’s Security/Rights Terror Law Impasse

Kerstin Bree Carlson

10. Addressing the Legacies of the Past: Historical Commissions in Consolidated Democracies

Cira Pallí-Asperó

11. Theorising Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict

Stephen Winter

Concluding Remarks

Tine Destrooper and Par Engstrom

Biography

Tine Destrooper is Associate Professor at the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium.

Line Engbo Gissel is Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor at Roskilde University and The American University of Paris.