Navigating Local Transitional Justice

Laura S. Martin is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and an affiliate at the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone. She has conducted research in Sierra Leone for over ten years and, in 2021, was Co-Investigator on an AHRC project entitled 'Performing Arts and Social Violence'. She has been published in numerous journals including Cooperation and Conflict and Third World Quarterly.

• List of Maps; Acknowledgements; 1. Agency in times of transitional justice: recognized and unrecognized mechanisms 'at work'; 2. Navigating violence, peace and justice: conflict and post-conflict experiences in Sierra Leone; 3. Deconstructing Fambul Tok's discourse and practice: the local, ownership and participation; 4. Participant experiences with Fambul Tok's program: interpretation, appropriation, agency; 5. Unrecognized mechanisms, normality and everyday realities in transition; 6. Activating justice; Appendix A. Informant interview list; References; Index.

'This is an outstanding and important book about how transition and justice are understood and achieved after conflict. Drawing on extensive work in Sierra Leone, Martin documents the creative, subversive and transformative ways that individuals and communities exercised agency in practice, through both recognised and unrecognised justice processes.' Kirsten Ainley, Australian National University