Transitional Justice Without Transition

This book examines the transitional justice ecosystem – actors, demands, strategies and networks in Turkey in the Kurdish conflict despite the lack of a transitional period. It situates grassroots actors as the driving forces of the grassroots transitional justice process in Turkey. This aligns with a broader shift in peacebuilding and transitional justice studies that prioritize bottom-up perspectives, emphasizing bespoke, locally driven mechanisms rather than ‘off-the-shelf’ models imposed by international actors. This book makes a twofold contribution to the field of transitional justice. First, Turkey is introduced, an underexamined case, into the transitional justice discourse by examining the civil society-led process within the context of the Kurdish conflict. The second contribution is the application of relationality in transitional justice as an analytical and conceptual lens to understand complex victim agency. The book offers empirical and conceptual insights into the dynamics of such environments for scholars and practitioners.