Gender Politics in Transitional Justice

Transitions from violent conflict and authoritarian rule are believed to be transformative moments for women; transitional justice processes, though principally concerned with providing limited accountability for human rights violations of the past, are increasingly injected with transformative social and political goals for the future. Drawing on original comparative research on women’s movements in Chile, Northern Ireland, and Colombia, Gender Politics in Transitional Justice argues that human rights outcomes for women of transitional justice processes are negotiated and determined in the space between international law and local gender politics.