Author: Kim Baudewijns
From the bottom-up: how transitional justice is being reappropriated and used as a mobilising tool in Eastern DRC
What happens when transitional justice (TJ) moves beyond negotiated peace agreements and post-conflict transitions and instead operates in a setting of ongoing, cyclical violence? In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this is not theoretical but a lived reality. What emerges there challenges some of the field’s assumptions and sheds light on how zooming…