Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice develops a novel framework to demonstrate how diasporas connect with local actors in transitional justice processes through a variety of mechanisms and their underlying analytical rationales.

Maria Koinova is Professor in International Relations at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States, forthcoming with Oxford University Press (2020) and of numerous articles on diasporas in world politics published from the ERC project 'Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty', which she directed between 2012 and 2017; www.diasporacontest.org.

Dzeneta Karabegovic is researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg in the Division of Political Science and Sociology. Her wider research interests are rooted in international and comparative political sociology with a particular focus on transnationalism, diaspora, migration, human rights, education, transitional justice, and the Balkans.

1. Introduction: Causal mechanisms in diaspora mobilizations for transitional justice

Maria Koinova and Dzeneta Karabegovic

2. Diaspora influence on the thin sympathetic response in transitional justice

Joanna R. Quinn

3. Transitional justice and acceptance of cohabitation in Cyprus

Charis Psaltis, Neophytos Loizides, Alicia LaPierre and Djordje Stefanovic

4. Diaspora mobilization and the Ukraine crisis: old traumas and new strategies

Milana Nikolko

5. Diaspora coalition-building for genocide recognition: Armenians, Assyrians and Kurds

Maria Koinova

6. Who chooses to remember? Diaspora participation in memorialization initiatives

Dzeneta Karabegovic

7. Syrian diaspora mobilization: vertical coordination, patronage relations, and the challenges of fragmentation in the pursuit of transitional justice

Espen Stokke and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm

8. Networking justice: digitally-enabled engagement in transitional justice by the Syrian diaspora

Chris Tenove