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International Journal of Transitional Justice
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.724

Citation Impact (citeScore): 2
Number of Followers: 14

Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 1752-7716 - ISSN (Online) 1752-7724
Published by Oxford University Press

[412 journals]

The Future of the Past: Reflections on the Present State and Prospects of
Transitional Justice
- Authors: de Greiff P.
  Pages: 251 - 259
  PubDate: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa013
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization and Radicalizing Transitional Justice
- Authors: Park A.
  Pages: 260 - 279
  Abstract: Although transitional justice has been mobilized to address violence perpetrated under regimes of settler colonialism that are also established liberal democracies, this article theorizes the inability of paradigmatic transitional justice to confront settler colonialism. The liberal teleology of transitional justice risks working to realize the self-supersessionist goal of replacing the colony with a ‘post-colonial’, settler/settled polity. Drawing on Indigenous scholars, decolonization is explored through refusal, resurgence and prefiguration. The article advances a counterfactual proposition: If transitional justice is radicalized it has the potential to contribute to decolonization through decentring the state, inter-nationalizing the justice relation, challenging the legitimacy of the settler regime and abandoning liberal teleology. The article argues for a decolonizing acceptance of indeterminacy and uncertainty.
  PubDate: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa006
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change: Towards evaluation as
understanding
- Authors: Gready P; Robins S.
  Pages: 280 - 299
  Abstract: This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is characterised by diverse interventions, complex and contested contexts, and the need to balance principles and pragmatism. Normative, linear and mechanism-based claims remain dominant, while the evidence base for transitional justice is still weak. This article looks at insights from adjacent fields, some of the challenges facing the development of theories of change within transitional justice, and evidence from impact studies and evaluations. In a final section we propose an alternative, drawing on complexity theory and actor-oriented approaches, which suggest an important set of terms – systems, interaction, contingency, context, encounter, emergence, incrementalism – to inform what we term evaluation as understanding.
  PubDate: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa008
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
The pressures of getting it right: Expertise and victims’ voices in the
work of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
- Authors: Menzel A.
  Pages: 300 - 319
  Abstract: ∞This article contributes to scholarship on power, agency and ownership in professional transitional justice. It explores and details the relationship between ‘professional’ agency arising from recognized expertise and ‘unprofessional’ voices relaying lived experiences, concerns and needs. I approach this relationship via a microperspective on the work of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004), specifically its work on women and sexual violence, which the commission was mandated to pay special attention to. Based on interviews and rich archival materials, I show how this work was driven by the notion that there was a right way of dealing with women and sexual violence. To avoid mistakes, commissioners and staff members demanded and relied on recognized expertise. This led to a marginalization of victims’ voices. I argue that, to some degree at least, such marginalization belongs to professional transitional justice and will persist despite improved victim participation.
  PubDate: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa011
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Ambushed by Memory: Post-Conflict Popular Memorialisation in Northern
Ireland
- Authors: Rolston B.
  Pages: 320 - 339
  PubDate: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa004
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Transition Without Transformation: The Legacy of Sudan’s
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
- Authors: Carolan G.
  Pages: 340 - 359
  Abstract: In recent years, the transitional justice framework has expanded to include a broader notion of transformative justice, which strives for socio-political reform in addition to legal accountability. Over the course of two civil wars, Sudan has grappled with various attempts at transition and transformation with mixed results. Though the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought an end to decades of North–South conflict, South Sudan’s subsequent descent into civil war has been characterised by a flawed transition and a lack of any immediate transformative potential.This paper analyses the Comprehensive Peace Agreement’s transitional mechanisms. In doing so, it explores how certain mechanisms frame the ‘meta-conflict’ about what the conflict is about, and how this can cut off a range of conflict resolution opportunities. It concludes by considering the legacy of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in contemporary Sudan and South Sudan, and how it might inform the prospective transitions in both countries.
  PubDate: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa010
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Passing on the torch of memory: Transitional justice and the transfer of
diaspora identity across generations
- Authors: Orjuela C.
  Pages: 360 - 380
  Abstract: ∞The role diaspora actors play in transitional justice (TJ) has recently been recognized by practitioners and scholars. This article focuses on how TJ initiatives, by re-emphasizing, retelling or silencing traumas of the past, can play an important role for the transfer of diaspora identity and homeland engagement across generations. Based on research on the diasporas from Rwanda and Sri Lanka, the article highlights the different positions made available for and taken up by young people in TJ, and the ways the past is evoked by the homeland state, diaspora organizations and people they meet in their day-to-day lives. TJ initiatives, the article argues, can serve as critical events that mobilize the young generation to support – or resist – narratives of the past, while also providing them with experiences that add to a postmemory of the painful past of their parents’ homeland.
  PubDate: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa005
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Patterned Payments: Explaining Victim Group Variation in West German
Reparations Policy
- Authors: Greenstein C.
  Pages: 381 - 400
  Abstract: ∞Why, once governments decide to pay reparations, do they fulfill their reparations promises to some groups and not to others' I argue that the organizational capacity of a victim group helps explain which groups receive reparations. I develop this argument through an in-depth case study of the postwar experience of German Sinti and Roma, supported by archival and interview data. I show that organized victim groups received reparations from the West German government in the 1950s, while Romani Germans, who did not organize until the late 1970s, were largely and deliberately excluded from receiving reparations payments until 1981, when the West German government created a reparations fund to benefit Romani German survivors. I show that this policy change cannot be understood without considering the efforts of Romani organizations.
  PubDate: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa009
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Politicized Justice: Africa and the International Criminal Court
- Authors: Rubin M.
  Pages: 401 - 411
  Abstract: Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback, Maxine ClarkeKamari. Duke University Press, November 2019, 384pp. ISBN: 9781478006701 – paperback ($29.95).
  PubDate: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa007
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)
Books Received
- Pages: 412 - 413
  Abstract: The following is a list of books received by the journal and published in the field between 15 December 2019 and 15 April 2020:
  PubDate: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa012
  Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2 (2020)