Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or non-field)

Beyond Transitional Justice examines the state of transitional justice and identifies new possibilities and challenges in human rights, peacebuilding, and development. It discusses transformative justice as an approach within or an alternative to transitional justice and considers its value to scholarship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 102 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Beyond Transitional Justice delves into the current state and future prospects of the field of transitional justice, encompassing its intersections with human rights, peacebuilding, and development. The book offers insightful chapters that forefront cutting-edge research in transitional justice, addressing critical theoretical and empirical questions while covering a wide range of international, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and practice-oriented content. In particular, it explores the concept of transformative justice in the context of emerging scholarship that defines and applies it as either an approach within or an alternative to transitional justice. The book assesses the value that transformative justice adds to scholarship on transitional justice and related areas, raising important questions about its future development as a field or non-field.

This timely intervention is of paramount importance for scholars and students engaged in the study of human rights, peace and conflict studies, international law, critical legal theory, development studies, criminology, and victimology. By providing a comprehensive examination of the past, present, and potential future of transitional justice, Beyond Transitional Justice offers valuable insights and perspectives that will enrich the academic discourse and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in these fields.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367770259