ABSTRACTThis essay discusses some points made by the three books under review regarding how children born of conflict-related sexual violence have not been seen and listened

to by those working in the field of transitional justice. To this end, it explores some of the reasons behind this oversight, including generalized assumptions about [...]

ABSTRACT∞In transitional justice processes, retrospective documentation of complex repressive environments poses significant challenges. Documenting state repression in fragile

environments is challenging, especially when relying on local sources and information from vulnerable populations. [...]

ABSTRACT∞In this article, I examine court-purging in democratic transitions through the lens of judicial preferences. Specifically, I address the debate on how court-purging

during a democratic transition affects the likelihood of future court-purging. I argue that the prevailing assumption is one of static, sincere judicial preferences. [...]

ABSTRACT∞As transitional justice becomes focused on transitions out of identity-based conflicts, the ability of interventions to transcend partisan approaches and be perceived

as legitimate by all sides has become a key challenge. Meta-conflicts – conflicts over what the conflict was about – often obstruct efforts of dealing with the [...]

ABSTRACT∞The principle of external coherence dictates that different measures in a transitional justice process should be coordinated so as to foster synergies and avoid

gaps and tensions. This article explains what lessons on external coherence have crystallized from transitional justice scholarship and practice and explores to what [...]

ABSTRACT∞This article examines the standardization of transitional justice, using Colombia—regarded by international observers as a contemporary laboratory—as a case.

It investigates the extent to which transitional justice, as a global blueprint for addressing past atrocities, is being embraced in Colombia and how Colombian experiences [...]

ABSTRACT∞This article explores the perspectives of Afghan human rights advocates and academics on transitional justice, focused on the conundrum of the International Criminal

Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. [...]

ABSTRACT∞In this article, we explore historical trends in gender-attentive transitional justice policies using a new global dataset of truth commissions, prosecutions and

reparations policies. We find that gender was largely absent from these policies from 1970 through 1990 but that more attention to gender began in the 1990s and has [...]

ABSTRACT∞This article explores the political agency of victims and proposes a new concept for understanding complex political victims in violent political contexts. To do

so, it first challenges the problematic dichotomy of victim-perpetrator identities in transitional justice, drawing on interdisciplinary studies of agency, victim [...]

ABSTRACT∞Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) was established under the administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor (2000–2008) to provide a forum for

victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations to testify about their experiences. [...]