This pioneering collection breaks new ground by examining how post-atrocity justice affects and is informed by familial relationships, particularly between parents and children.
Moving beyond traditional discussions of victims and perpetrators, this volume centres the dynamics of care, responsibility, and identity in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It explores how attempts at addressing legacies of mass atrocity can undermine or strengthen families. Drawing on global case studies and innovative interdisciplinary insights, chapters reveal how socially constructed ideas about parenthood and childhood inform notions of responsibility with and for children within transitional justice frameworks.
Introduction: Windows into the Past, Gateways to a Just Future? The Parent-Child Relationship and Transitional Justice – Kirsten J. Fisher and Caitlin Mollica Part 1: Conceptualising Familial Transitional Justice Relationships Grown-Ups, Grown-Downs, and Pan Generationality – Mark A. Drumbl Childhood and the Parent Subject: Encounters in Public Memory – J. Marshall Beier Queering Childhood and Paternalism in Global Transitional Justice – Caitlin Biddolph Part 2: Governed and Governing Familial Transitional Justice Relationships 4. Rights to Supported Family and Non-Discrimination: The National Transitional Justice Response to the Phenomenon of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Uganda – Kirsten J. Fisher and Jess Mugero 5. The Guatemalan State as Parent; Indigenous People as Children – Leonzo Barreno (K’iche’ Maya) 6. Children’s Voices: The Implementation of An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Children, Youth, and Families as a Transitional Justice Tool in Saskatchewan, Canada – Jamesy Patrick 7. Child- and Family-Sensitive Transitional Justice Policy Implementation in Africa – Bonny Ibhawoh and Adebisi Alade 8. Artisans of Peace: When Children Challenge the Parent/Child Dichotomy in Contexts of Transitional Justice – Cadhla O’Sullivan Part 3: Lived Experience of Familial Transitional Justice Relationships 9. A Search for Belonging: Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda and Post-Conflict Reunification with Paternal Families – Myriam Denov, Nathaniel Mosseau, and Atim Angela Lakor 10. Parents, Children and Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: Intergenerational Echoes of Gacaca Trials – Barbora Holá, Veroni Eichelsheim, Lidewyde Berckmoes, Annemiek Richters 11. Iraqi Children: From Margins to Fictitious Center in Iraq’s Transitional Justice Post-2003 – Yousra Hasona 12. The Return of Child Soldiers to Family: Social Dynamics Amidst the Absence of Justice in Nepal – Kate Macfarlane 13. Mothers’ and Children’s Resilience in the Context of the Years of Lead and Their Involvement in the Transitional Justice Process in Morocco – Aziz Saidi Conclusion: Reflections on the Intersections Between Childhood Studies and Transitional Justice – Helen Berents and Mark Kersten
Kirsten J. Fisher is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Caitlin Mollica is Assistant Professor for the Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Reviews for Parents, Children, and the Ripples of Transitional Justice
""Combining sophisticated theoretical analysis with rich empirical research, this edited collection goes straight to the heart of the most fundamental of all human relationships. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of transitional justice."" Renee Jeffery, Griffith Asia Institute ""An important volume that highlights how the family can and must be considered in any process to address broader legacies of violence in communities seeking to move beyond it."" Simon Robins, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York ""A necessary and truly global contribution to peacebuilding discussions by highlighting the family dimension and paternalist logics of transitional justice practices. A must read to reflect on effective sustainable peace."" Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, University of Sheffield
