Special Issue
Whose Justice? Global and Local Approaches to Transitional Justice
November 2009
Guest Editor: Professor Kimberly Theidon, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University and Executive Director of Praxis Institute for Social Justice
Papers in this issue will address topics such as:
• The definition of transitional justice and its goals — who defines the field and whether there are universal concepts which can be applied?
• The relationship between international justice mechanisms and local processes and priorities – including complementarity, sequencing, and differing definitions of victimhood
• The role of actors/stakeholders involved when introducing a politics of scale into our analyses
• How local priorities, histories, and international standards converge and diverge, and the consequences of this
• How do transitional justice mechanisms contribute, if they do, to the goal of reconciliation/social reconstruction?
• How might local justice mechanisms be incorporated into state and international interventions?
• What is the role of ritual in accessing guilt and administering various forms of justice>
• Traditional justice – its use and misuse in its application to transitional justice
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