'Closing the Books': The genealogy of transitional justice (TJ) / Muhammad Danial Azman

• Main Author: Azman, M. D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya 2016
• Subjects: B Philosophy (General); H Social Sciences (General); JA Political science (General); JX International law; JZ International relations
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18526/1/Azman_2016.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/18526/; https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/SARJANA/issue/current

Drawing from secondary literature and three years of fieldwork in various post-conflict societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, this article revisits the conceptual development of a term ‘Transitional Justice (TJ)’ in order to illuminate the political construction and deconstruction of...