The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (In Progress) Jens Meierhenrich (ed.) et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198704355.001.0001 Published: 18 September 2023 Online ISBN: 9780191774461 Print ISBN: 9780198704355 Search in this book CHAPTER https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198704355.013.22 Published: 19 November 2024 Abstract Keywords: peace, justice, peacebuilding, transitional justice, hybrid peace, liberal peace, global justice, International Relations Subject: Law and Society, Human Rights and Immigration, Law Series: Oxford Handbooks Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online Peace and Transitional Justice Oliver P. Richmond Debates about peace and justice have long been locked into a stalemate over whether one negates or supports the other. The legitimacy of peacebuilding was based originally on human rights and democracy, and later upon local ownership and social claims. Increasingly geopolitics and geo- economics have blocked the deepening of the peace agenda in the light of subaltern claims, post- colonialism, law, and global justice. Transitional justice debates can be seen as both a palliative and the outcome of this stalemate. This debate cannot be resolved without advancing our understanding of peace from the agreement or state level to a contemporaneous understanding, and extending the concept of justice that is generally referred to from a micro to a global level to take account of temporal, historical, distributive, environmental, and related matters on a local to global scale. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/51233/chapter/494217111 by OUP-Reference Gratis Access user on 04 December 2024