This book examines the transitional justice ecosystem actors, demands, strategies and networks - in Turkey in the Kurdish conflict despite the lack of a transitional period. It situates grassroots actors as the driving forces of the grassroots transitional justice process in Turkey. This aligns with a broader shift in peacebuilding and transitional justice studies that prioritize bottom-up perspectives, emphasizing bespoke, locally driven mechanisms rather than off-the-shelf models imposed by international actors. This book makes a twofold contribution to the field of transitional justice. First, Turkey is introduced, an underexamined case, into the transitional justice discourse by examining the civil society-led process within the context of the Kurdish conflict. The second contribution is the application of relationality in transitional justice as an analytical and conceptual lens to understand complex victim agency. The book offers empirical and conceptual insights into the dynamics of such environments for scholars and practitioners.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Relational Agency: An Analytical
Framework for Grassroots Activism in Transitional Justice.
Chapter 3: The
Transitional Justice Ecosystem in Turkey: Grassroots Actors, Practices, and
Strategies.
Chapter 4: Grassroots Actors Demands and Needs for Justice.-
Chapter 5: The Saturday Mothers Movement.
Chapter 6: Truth and Justice
Commission for Diyarbakr Prison.
Chapter 7: Conclusion.
Dr Güne Dal is a Cara research fellow in the Department of International Relations, Politics, and History at Loughborough University. Her recent research focuses on diaspora efforts for the transitional justice process in Syria. She teaches on transitional justice, conflict, gender and peace, critical security studies, and Middle East politics.
