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The Cambridge Handbook of Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice

Author: Tine Destrooper; Elke Evrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009671422
Published In: March 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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

Güneş Daşlı

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

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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