The Cambridge Handbook of Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice

Tine Destrooper is Professor of Transitional Justice at Ghent University. She has published extensively in various leading journals and recently edited Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts (with Line Gissel and Kerstin Carlson). Her work has been supported by two European Research Council grants and two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships, and she was recently a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University. Elke Evrard is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. Her research on transitional justice has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals. She contributes to scholarly and public engagement through invited lectures, teaching, and her role as managing editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She was recently awarded a grant by the Research Foundation – Flanders.

• 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; 21 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; Concluding thoughts: a future outlook on the study and practice of victim engagement in transitional justice Elke Evrard and Tine Destrooper.