OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Transitional Justice is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Long Shadows of Gwangju: Transitional Criminal Justice in South Korea	22
Justice Now and Later: How Measures Taken to Address Wrongdoings during Armed Conflict Affect Postconflict Justice	14
Youth on the Frontlines: Preventing Human Rights Abuses in Violent Contexts, A Case Study of LUCHA in the DR of Congo	13
Palestine as a Litmus Test for Transitional Justice	12
Transitional and Climate Justice: New Opportunities for Justice in Transition	9
The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice	8
‘Co-Conspirators in Murder’: Dirty Wars, Meta-Conflicts and Bipartisan Transitional Justice	8
Youth, Transitional Justice and Art: Documenting War on the Streets of Sana’a, Yemen	8
Urbicide and Coming to Terms with the Past: Everyday Acts of Return and Reconstruction in Post-war Nahr el Bared	7
How Justice Becomes Part of the Deal: Pre-Conditions for the Inclusion of Transitional Justice Provisions in Peace Agreements	6
Connecting Truth Commissions, Socioeconomic Harms and Child Participation	6
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice	6
Whose Testimony? Thinking about Other-Than-Human Witnesses in Transitional Justice	6
Books Received	6
Transitions without Justice: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal	5
Advancing Local US Transitional Justice Initiatives: A University Partnership Alongside Descendant Communities	5
Situating Reparations for Ukraine within a Broader Transitional Justice Process	5
Public Attitudes toward On-Going Transitional Justice in Latvia: Sometimes More Isn’t Better	5
The Stuff from the Siege: Transitional Justice and the Power of Everyday Objects in Museums	5
‘Global South’ Voices Are Muted in Debates over the Crime of Aggression: What Three Books on Illegal War Tell Us About Why	4
Books Received	4
How Truth Commissions Can Effect Transformative Change in a Polarized Age	4
Zouglou Visions of Transitional Justice	4
Editorial Special Section: ‘Transitional Justice and Nature: A Curious Silence’	4
Remembering Martial Law: An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines	4

‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism	4
Hiding in Plain Sight: Victim Participation in the Search for Disappeared Persons, a Contribution to (Procedural) Justice	3
Purging Disloyal Courts in Democratic Transitions and Judicial Preferences	3
The Transformation of Lithuanian Memories of Soviet Crimes to Genocide Recognition	3
Corrigendum to: Democratizing Truth: An Analysis of Truth Commissions in the United States	3
Art as a Generational and Geographical Transversal Tool in the Hands of Youth: Srebrenica Is Dutch History	3
Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland	3
Transitional Justice and the Legacy of The Second World War	3
Birangonas, Gender and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh	3
Correction to: Politics of Victimhood and Hierarchies of Missing Persons in Cyprus	2
Snapshots of Ghana’s Contested Restorative Justice Programme	2
The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice	2
Reckoning with Reconciliation: Art and Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Harm, Relationality and More-than-Human Worlds: Developing the Field of Transitional Justice in New Posthumanist Directions	2
Transitional Justice and the Problem of Democratic Decline	2
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes	2
Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship	2
Patriarchy is a Judge: Young Feminists and LGBTQ+ Activists Performing Transitional Justice in Chile	2
Books Received	2
Game-based Learning: Introducing the Subject of Transitional Justice through a Serious Game	2
Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response	2
Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies	1
Unpacking the Harms of Reproductive Violence in Mass Atrocities: Developing a New Typology	1
Transformative Memory: Ways of Being Together in the Afterlives of Political Violence	1
Decolonization of Postcolonial Africa: A Structural Justice Project More Radical than Transitional Justice	1
Books Received	1
Imagining Collective Reincorporation: Perceptions of Colombia’s Novel Approach to Peacebuilding	1
Using Strategic Litigation and Universal Jurisdiction to Advance Accountability for Serious International Crimes	1
The State of Repair: The International Norm of Reparations between Aspirations and Expectations	1
Evolution of the Conception of Justice within the Field of Transitional Justice in Post-dictatorial Chilean Society	1
Developing Transitional Justice for Youth: An Assessment of Youth Reintegration Programmes in Colombia	1
Beyond Seeing and Listening: Children Born from Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	1
A Voices-Centered Approach to Transitional Justice: Youth-led Activism and Artistic Initiatives Open Spaces for Broad Community Engagement	1
Notes from the Field: Lessons Learned from Investigating the Past in Northern Ireland	1
Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts	1
The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition	1
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru	1
Impunity and Transitional Justice in Indonesia: Aksi Kamisan’s Circular Time	1
Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice: The Challenges and Limitations of Reparations in Russia	1
Truth Commissions and the Prevention of Targeted Mass Killings	1
Books Received	1
Narrowing the Gap in the Access to Justice for Child Victims in Postconflict Societies: An Analysis Stemming from the Construction of Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy	1
Books Received	1
Education and Transitional Justice: Como, Para, Sobre	1
Queering the Global Governance of Transitional Justice: Tensions and (Im)Possibilities	1
Difficult Stories that Haunt: Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice	1
Books Received	1
Justice as Resistance: How Post-Arab Spring Experiences Are Reshaping the Global Transitional Justice Landscape	1
Transitional Justice in Public and Private: Truth Commission Narratives in Greensboro	1
When Truth Commission Models Travel: Explaining the Norwegian Case	1