OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Transitional Justice is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Long Shadows of Gwangju: Transitional Criminal Justice in South Korea	20
Palestine as a Litmus Test for Transitional Justice	11
Youth on the Frontlines: Preventing Human Rights Abuses in Violent Contexts, A Case Study of LUCHA in the DR of Congo	9
Transitional and Climate Justice: New Opportunities for Justice in Transition	9
Justice Now and Later: How Measures Taken to Address Wrongdoings during Armed Conflict Affect Postconflict Justice	8
‘Co-Conspirators in Murder’: Dirty Wars, Meta-Conflicts and Bipartisan Transitional Justice	7
Youth, Transitional Justice and Art: Documenting War on the Streets of Sana’a, Yemen	7
The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice	7
Urbicide and Coming to Terms with the Past: Everyday Acts of Return and Reconstruction in Post-war Nahr el Bared	6
Transitions without Justice: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal	6
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	5
Books Received	5
The Stuff from the Siege: Transitional Justice and the Power of Everyday Objects in Museums	5
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice	5
Books Received	4
Public Attitudes toward On-Going Transitional Justice in Latvia: Sometimes More Isn’t Better	4
Editorial Special Section: ‘Transitional Justice and Nature: A Curious Silence’	4
Situating Reparations for Ukraine within a Broader Transitional Justice Process	4
Advancing Local US Transitional Justice Initiatives: A University Partnership Alongside Descendant Communities	4
Whose Testimony? Thinking about Other-Than-Human Witnesses in Transitional Justice	4
‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism	3
How Truth Commissions Can Effect Transformative Change in a Polarized Age	3
Apologies for and Acknowledgements of Historical Violence and Struggles for Justice	3
Remembering Martial Law: An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines	3

Zouglou Visions of Transitional Justice	3
‘Global South’ Voices Are Muted in Debates over the Crime of Aggression: What Three Books on Illegal War Tell Us About Why	3
Hiding in Plain Sight: Victim Participation in the Search for Disappeared Persons, a Contribution to (Procedural) Justice	2
Transitional Justice and the Legacy of The Second World War	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
The Transformation of Lithuanian Memories of Soviet Crimes to Genocide Recognition	2
Corrigendum to: Democratizing Truth: An Analysis of Truth Commissions in the United States	2
Art as a Generational and Geographical Transversal Tool in the Hands of Youth: Srebrenica Is Dutch History	2
Books Received	2
Birangonas, Gender and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh	2
Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland	2
Purging Disloyal Courts in Democratic Transitions and Judicial Preferences	2
Snapshots of Ghana’s Contested Restorative Justice Programme	2
Patriarchy is a Judge: Young Feminists and LGBTQ+ Activists Performing Transitional Justice in Chile	2
Difficult Stories that Haunt: Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice	1
Decolonization of Postcolonial Africa: A Structural Justice Project More Radical than Transitional Justice	1
The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition	1
Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies	1
Impunity and Transitional Justice in Indonesia: Aksi Kamisan’s Circular Time	1
Transformative Memory: Ways of Being Together in the Afterlives of Political Violence	1
Books Received	1
Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response	1
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru	1
Imagining Collective Reincorporation: Perceptions of Colombia’s Novel Approach to Peacebuilding	1
Queering the Global Governance of Transitional Justice: Tensions and (Im)Possibilities	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
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
Education and Transitional Justice: Como, Para, Sobre	1
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes	1
Reckoning with Reconciliation: Art and Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Books Received	1
The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice	1
Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts	1
Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice: The Challenges and Limitations of Reparations in Russia	1
Books Received	1
Notes from the Field: Lessons Learned from Investigating the Past in Northern Ireland	1
Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship	1
Game-based Learning: Introducing the Subject of Transitional Justice through a Serious Game	1
Evolution of the Conception of Justice within the Field of Transitional Justice in Post-dictatorial Chilean Society	0
Global South States and Transitional Justice: Beyond Politicization	0
Angola’s Reconciliation Commission CIVICOP: Delayed Transitional Justice in a Non-Transitional Authoritarian Context	0
Complicity or Decolonization? Restitution of Heritage from ‘Global’ Ethnographic Museums	0
The ‘Domino Effect’ of Ongoing Violence on Transitional Justice: The Case of Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace	0
Recognition as Transitional Justice ‘From Below’: Analysing Victims’ Grassroots Activism in Postconflict Colombia	0
Correction to: ‘When We are in Crisis’: Youth-Centered Transitional Justice, Police Violence, and Political Imaginaries	0
Books Received	0
Memory Activism as Advocacy for Transitional Justice: Memory Laws, Mass Graves and Impunity in Spain	0
An Econcentric Turn in the Transitional Restorative Justice Process in Colombia	0

Distance in the International Criminal Court’s Relations with the ‘Local’	0
Correction to: Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform	0
Reckoning with Colonial Legacies of Harm: Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission	0
Voices of the Marginalized: Victims’ Perspectives on Agonistic Reconciliation and Power Disparity	0
The Green Thumb of Transitional Justice: The Consideration of the Environmental Dimension of Armed Conflict in Truth Commissions	0
The Continuum of Direct and Structural Violence in (Transformative) Transitional Justice: Photovoices from Colombia	0
Books Received	0
Ex-combatants and the Truth Commission in Colombia: An Analysis of the Participation of Former Military and Ex-guerrillas	0
The Case for Rage in Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Anti-Racist Struggle	0
How Locally Owned and Sustainable Are Victims’ Groups in Postconflict and Transitional Settings? Reflections from Northern Uganda	0
The Dilemma of Justice: The International Criminal Court’s Political Maneuver	0
Atomic Bomb Survivors (Hibakusha) Studies and Transitional Justice Studies: Fostering Dialogue Between Fields	0
Youth, Comics and Trauma in Transitional Justice	0
Youth and Transitional Justice	0
Beyond Seeing and Listening: Children Born from Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	0
Books Received	0
Books Received	0
‘Taking Responsibility for the White Collective’: Implicated Subjects and Transformative Justice in the United States	0
Transitional Justice in Public and Private: Truth Commission Narratives in Greensboro	0
From Truth Commission to Truth Project: The Evolution of Mississippi’s Incomplete Truth Commission, 2005–2010	0
Breaking the Echo Chambers of Transitional Justice and TWAIL: An Intellectual and Policy Exchange	0
‘When We are in Crisis’: Youth-Centered Transitional Justice, Police Violence, and Political Imaginaries	0
The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: An Ambiguous Experiment with ‘Truth’ and ‘Justice’	0
The (Many) Afterlives of Transitional Justice: Practice-based Insights on Continuity, Impact and Evolving Justice Struggles	0
Building Reparations: Key Factors for Success in Transitional Justice Efforts	0
Correction to: History Education for Transitional Justice? Challenges, Limitations and Possibilities for Settler Colonial Australia	0
The Complementarity Paradigm: Tracing the Transitional Justice Blueprint in the Inter-American System of Human Rights	0
Reflecting on Race, Racism and Transitional Justice	0
Between Impunity and Justice? Exploring Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Colombia’s Special Sanctions (Sanciones Propias) for International Crimes	0
Legacies of Colonial Violence in Contemporary Transitional Justice: Memories of Mau Mau, the ‘Kapenguria Six’ and the ‘Ocampo Six’ in Kenya	0
Justice as Resistance: How Post-Arab Spring Experiences Are Reshaping the Global Transitional Justice Landscape	0
The Afterlives of Transitional Justice	0
Peace as Betrayal: On the Human Cost of Relational Peacebuilding in Transitional Contexts	0
Books Received	0
Colombia as the ‘Laboratory’ for Transitional Justice: Consolidation and Innovation of Global Formulas	0
The Epistemic Violence of Transitional Justice: A View from Sri Lanka	0
Breaking the Promise: Transitional Justice between Tactical Concession and Legacies of Authoritarian Regime in Indonesia	0
‘The Strength Even to Comprehend the Incomprehensible’: Rereading Adorno in the Age of Authoritarian Resurgence	0
Transitional Justice in Post-terror Contexts: The Norwegian 22 July Memorial and the Ambiguity of Litigation	0
Participatory Transitional Justice as Anticipatory Project: North Korea, Diasporas and Uncertain Futures	0
The Challenges in Addressing Non-Recent Abuses in Ireland: Critical Engagements with Transitional Justice	0
Politics of Victimhood and Hierarchies of Missing Persons in Cyprus	0
Male and Gender-Diverse Victims of Sexual Violence in the Rohingya Genocide: The Selective Narrative of International Courts	0
A Voices-Centered Approach to Transitional Justice: Youth-led Activism and Artistic Initiatives Open Spaces for Broad Community Engagement	0
Becoming More Informed About Informers	0
When Truth Commission Models Travel: Explaining the Norwegian Case	0
Nature in Focus: The Invisibility and Re-Emergence of Rivers, Land and Animals in Colombia’s Transitional Justice System	0
Learning from Civil Society Actors in Turkey: Using Transitional Justice in an Ongoing Conflict	0
Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends	0
Discovering What Is Already Known: The Afro-Colombian Ancestral Justice System before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace	0
Exploring the Nexus between Transitional Justice and Ecoterritorial Conflict Resolution: Time for an Ecoterritorial Turn in Transformative Transitional Justice?	0
Re-Politicizing the Traumatic Body through Art: Guillermo Núñez, Ariel Dorfman and the Political Transition in Chile	0
Historical Violence and Public Attitudes towards Justice: Evidence from the United States	0
Victim Agency, Relational Autonomy and Transitional Justice: Experience of Saturday Mothers	0
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability: Introducing New Players and New Theoretical Challenges	0
Eliminate Structural Injustices or Perpetuate Them: Indigenous Peoples and Transitional Justice in the Criminal Court System of Taiwan	0
‘We Are Not Our Parents’ – beyond Political Transition: Historical Failings, Present Angst and Future Yearnings of South African Youth	0
Australian Reconciliation and the Enduring Invisibility of Whiteness	0
Memorial Justice? Lessons from Colombia on How Memorialization Can Serve Justice in Transitional Contexts	0
After Gaza	0
Transitional Justice and Redress for Racial Injustices against Marginalized Minorities: Lessons from Indigenous Twa People in Post-Genocide Rwanda	0
Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform	0
Three Decades of Transitional Justice Practice in Africa: Reflections on Lessons Learnt Towards an African Transformative Justice	0
Why the International Criminal Court Should Apply Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice Principles to Improve the Impact of Its Criminal Trials on Societies around the World	0
Truth-telling, Ancestral Remains and the Establishment of a National Resting Place in Australia	0
Torturing Environment in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations in the Case of the Indigenous Rama-Kreol Communities in Nicaragua	0
Listening and Preparing the Society to Engage: The Case of the Colombian Truth Commission and Its Legacy Strategy	0
The Politics of Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability for Atrocities: Options under International Law	0
Developing Transitional Justice for Youth: An Assessment of Youth Reintegration Programmes in Colombia	0
From Sexual Violence to Systemic Vulnerabilities: Ethical Considerations in Research in Post-Atrocity Settings	0
Truth Commissions and the Prevention of Targeted Mass Killings	0
Reparations for Indigenous Women Subjected to Sexual and Environmental Violence in the Colombian Post-Peace Agreement	0