Transitional Justice and the Kurdish Conflict

A Grassroots Approach
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-55851-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Transitional Justice

Centralising the experience of victims and other grassroots actors, this book examines how transitional justice can be used in transforming the Kurdish conflict in Turkey.

Despite 40 years of armed conflict, its violent effects on Kurdish people and the wider society, and strong demands for justice, there is little work on transitional justice in the context of the Kurdish conflict. In response, this book explores the limits and potentials of transitional justice in Turkey’s ongoing conflict by focusing on the perspectives of victims and grassroots justice activists. Such perspectives have received little attention in the transitional justice literature, even as it has exhibited an increasing interest in contexts where no formal transition has taken place. But, as this book demonstrates, the Kurdish conflict reveals the importance, not only of documenting these perspectives, but in seeing how those most affected by conflict are able to transform their experience into political action. Drawing on Kurdish victims’ own understandings of their experiences and activists’ perceptions of the potential of transitional justice, the book thereby addresses, and advocates, the transformative potential of bottom-up, grassroots-level efforts to deliver transitional justice goals.

This book will appeal to transitional justice scholars and practitioners, those with interests in the role of social movements, as well as others with interests in the Kurdish conflict or in Middle Eastern politics more generally.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alici, Nisan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Situating Turkey within the Field of Transitional Justice 2. The Kurdish Conflict, Transitional Justice and Victimhood in Turkey 3. Victimhood and Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflicts 4. Understanding the Saturday Mothers Movement 5. The Construction and Complexities of Victimhood in the Kurdish Conflict 6. Saturday Mothers’ Contributions to the Pillars of Transitional Justice 7. Fragmented Transitions: Civil Society, State Responses, and Transitional Justice in Turkey's Kurdish Conflict 8. Transitional Justice Imaginaries in Turkey 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nisan Alici is Early Career Academic at the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Policy, Practice and Research (CASSPPR), University of Derby, UK.