Transitional (in)Justice and Enforcing the Peace on Palestine

This book considers the growing interest in transitional justice practices that take place against the backdrop of ongoing settler-colonialism in Palestine.

By critiquing the role of common top-down and bottom-up interventions, namely truth recovery and international criminal justice, the book argues that transitional justice acts as an extension of a deeply flawed peacebuilding process that has been so destructive in Palestine and has a deflating effect when it comes to advancing calls for meaningful decolonisation.

A ‘radicalisation’ of transitional justice that takes place in settler-colonial contexts, one that prioritises conversations around meaningful decolonisation, is therefore required.

The book will appeal to those with an interest in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and transitional justice.