The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice: Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success

Kirsten Ainley; Rebekka Friedman; Chris Mahony

The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice: Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success

Kirsten Ainley, Rebekka Friedman, Chris Mahony

Department of International Relations

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Sierra Leone has become something of a touchstone in broader debates surrounding transitional justice (TJ) since its civil war ended in 2002: a site of competing imperatives and Conflicting ideologies and agendas. The country has been the focus of a sustained international effort to implement an ideological-normative TJ agenda and a setting in which TJ practitioners tried to correct perceived past shortcomings. Yet this was not purely a project of ethics or law: international and domestic politics, as this book makes clear, have also played important roles in dictating the opportunities and constraints for transitional justice in Sierra Leone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evaluating Transitional Justice
Subtitle of host publication	Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
Editors	Kirsten Ainley, Rebekka Friedman, Chris Mahony
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillian
Chapter	13
Pages	265–279
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Ainley, K., Friedman, R., & Mahony, C. (2015). The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice: Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success . In K. Ainley, R. Friedman, & C. Mahony (Eds.), Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (pp. 265–279). Palgrave Macmillian. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137468222_13

Ainley, Kirsten ; Friedman, Rebekka ; Mahony, Chris. / The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice : Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success . Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone. editor / Kirsten Ainley ; Rebekka Friedman ; Chris Mahony. Palgrave Macmillian, 2015. pp. 265–279

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Ainley, K, Friedman, R & Mahony, C 2015, The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice: Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success . in K Ainley, R Friedman & C Mahony (eds), Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone. Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 265–279. <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137468222_13>

The Potential and Politics of Transitional Justice: Interactions between the Global and the Local in Evaluations of Success . / Ainley, Kirsten; Friedman, Rebekka; Mahony, Chris.
Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone. ed. / Kirsten Ainley; Rebekka Friedman; Chris Mahony. Palgrave Macmillian, 2015. p. 265–279.

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