Juris Diversitas is pleased to inform you about the new special issue of Development &
Change which is now online: 'Transition and Justice: Negotiating the
Terms of New Beginnings in Africa'.
It is edited by Gerhard Anders (Edinburgh) and Olaf Zenker (Bern), and examines a series of cases where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order. It focuses on three issues that are key to understand ‘new beginnings’: the problem of finding a foundation for that which explicitly breaks with the past; the discrepancies between lofty promises and the messy realities of transitional justice in action; and the dialectic between logics of the exception and the ordinary, employed to legitimize or resist transitional justice mechanisms.
It is edited by Gerhard Anders (Edinburgh) and Olaf Zenker (Bern), and examines a series of cases where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order. It focuses on three issues that are key to understand ‘new beginnings’: the problem of finding a foundation for that which explicitly breaks with the past; the discrepancies between lofty promises and the messy realities of transitional justice in action; and the dialectic between logics of the exception and the ordinary, employed to legitimize or resist transitional justice mechanisms.
