Guy Elcheroth is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Academic Director of the Lausanne Summer School on Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation.Neloufer de Mel is Senior Professor of English (Chair) at the Department of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Co-director of the GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Research Hub.

• Introduction1 Spotlights and shadows: Revisiting the scope of transitional justice Guy Elcheroth and Neloufer De Mel Part I: Commemoration as Celebration2 Celebrating the end of apartheidTim Murithi3 Commemorating genocide in RwandaErin Jessee 4 Victory celebration and the unmaking of diversity in post-war Sri LankaPaikiasothy Saravanamuttu Part II: Forgotten Issues5 Social justice and the persistence of racialized segregationKevin Durrheim and Amy Jo Murray6 Intergenerational justice Esther Surenthiraraj 7 Non-citizens’ rights: Xenophobia, nationalism and struggle post transition Philippa Kerr and John DixonPart III: Forgotten Actors8 Diaspora communities in transitional justice: A hidden presenceStephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach and Laura Hein9 Rural women and their access to the law: Gendering the promise of postwar justiceNeloufer De Mel and Danushka Medawatte10 Former combatants: Assessing their reintegration ten years after the end of warRamila Usoof-Thowfeek and Viyanga Gunasekera Part IV: Forgotten Resources11 Constructive resistance and the importance of not knowing in transitional justiceBriony Jones 12 Inclusive narratives of sufferingJohanna Ray Vollhardt, Michelle Sinayobye Twali and Sumedha Jayakody13 How crowds transfom identitiesYasemin Gülsüm Acar and Stephen Reicher14 Collective resilienceSandra Penic, John Drury and Zacharia Bady Conclusion15 On the futures of reckoning with the pastNeloufer De Mel and Guy Elcheroth

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