How have victims shaped and reshaped transitional justice? This volume introduces a novel framework for tracing and interpreting the evolving trajectories of victim-survivor engagement across different phases of grassroots activism, institutional participation, and various forms of resistance. Drawing on a diverse range of empirical case studies from across the globe, the handbook provides both a historical analysis of victims' evolving roles in (formal, informal, and everyday) transitional justice processes and a comparative perspective on the realities of victim engagement today highlighting increasingly intersecting justice struggles and the porous boundaries of transitional justice. Written for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in transitional justice, human rights, international law, peacebuilding, and social movements, this interdisciplinary resource draws on innovative, on-the-ground practices and the protagonism of victims to foster conceptual and methodological innovation for a forward-looking reimagination of victim-led justice after large-scale violence.
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A comprehensive framework, rooted in rich empirical cases, for understanding evolving victim engagement across increasingly intersecting transitional justice struggles.
Introduction: tracing victim engagement across different spaces and
moments in time Tine Destrooper and Elke Evrard; Part I. Generations of
Victim Engagement:
1. Seeking the missing: relatives' and activists'
protagonism in the search for Chile's disappeared Mauricio Carrasco and Cath
Collins;
2. Victimhood, agency and the mobilisation of empathy Cheryl
Lawther;
3. Victim engagement in reparations and the role of conflict-related
classifications Thorsten Bonacker;
4. Exploring relational agency in
collective mobilization for justice: Saturday Mothers Movement in Turkey
Güne Dal;
5. Searching for the disappeared: victim participation,
recognition and procedural justice lessons learnt from Colombia and El
Salvador Mina Rauschenbach and Briony Jones;
6. Formal participation, de
facto exclusion? The impact of transitional justice standardisation in Uganda
for affected communities and victims Thomas Obel Hansen;
7. Why now, to what
end and how? A victim-oriented examination of the ICC Office of the
prosecutor's policy on complementarity and cooperation Miracle Chinwenmeri
Uche;
8. Beyond the extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia: tracing
the nexus between Buddhist justice and formal transitional justice approaches
Fangyi Li;
9. Truth processes and victim participation in the United States
of America: an examination of Maryland and California Brianne McGonigle Leyh;
10. Reparations as resistance Luke Moffett;
11. storying participation:
memoir, victim engagement, and 'quiet' transitional justice Lauren Dempster
and Kevin Hearty;
12. Victim mobilisation as transformative local process
after mass violence: families of the missing in Nepal Simon Robins and Ram
Kumar Bhandari;
13. Breaking the mould? Social movements and the 'ideal
victim' of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in Colombia's
transitional justice Daniela Suárez Vargas;
14. Archives of desire: listening
to bottom-up consultations on the design of transitional justice mechanisms
in Sri Lanka Chulani Kodikara; Part II. Intersecting Justice Struggles and
How to Understand Them:
15. Intersecting injustices: diasporic
(dis-)engagement in Syrian justice struggles Mina Ibrahim, Maria Hartmann and
Susanne Buckley-Zistel;
16. Lots to gain and little to lose: mobilising
transitional justice as a means to connect various justice struggles in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo Kim Baudewijns;
17. Bridging the gap:
transitional justice, victims, and business and human rights in Colombia
Marta Paricio Montesinos;
18. Relational justice through meaningful
participation in reparations processes Pamina Firchow and Lisa J. Laplante;
19. Victim's bottom-up participation through theatre of the oppressed in an
aparadigmatic transitional justice context: The Case of Afghanistan Huma
Saeed;
20. Participatory research in postwar El Salvador: co-creation of
community history books with civil war survivors and local youth Adriana
Alas, Amanda Grzyb and María Helia Rivera Castillo; 21 Technology for justice
in Latin America: a (partial) account of the awkward interaction between
technology and human rights in the quest for justice Michael Reed-Hurtado;
Concluding thoughts: a future outlook on the study and practice of victim
engagement in transitional justice Elke Evrard and Tine Destrooper.
Tine Destrooper is Professor of Transitional Justice at Ghent University. She has published extensively in various leading journals and recently edited Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts (with Line Gissel and Kerstin Carlson). Her work has been supported by two European Research Council grants and two Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowships, and she was recently a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University. Elke Evrard is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. Her research on transitional justice has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals. She contributes to scholarly and public engagement through invited lectures, teaching, and her role as managing editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She was recently awarded a grant by the Research Foundation Flanders.
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