Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.

1. Introduction Paul Gready; Part I. Theories and Contexts: 2. From transitional to transformative justice: a new agenda for practice Simon Robins; 3. Predicaments of transformative justice in neoliberal and state-centric world order Richard Falk; 4. Rights and transformation Malcolm Langford; Part II. Building Bridges: 5. Measures of non-repetition in transitional justice: the missing link? Naomi Roht-Arriaza; 6. Between transition and transformation: legal empowerment as collective reparation Lars Waldorf; 7. Transformative gender justice? Fionnuala Ni Aolain; 8. Memory and democracy: towards a transformative relationship Elizabeth Jelin; Part III. New(er) Directions: 9. Connecting the egregious and the everyday: addressing impunity for sexual violence in Sri Lanka Chulani Kodikara; 10. Participation and transformative justice: reflections on the Brazilian experience Laura Trajber Waisbich and Vera Schattan P. Coelho; 11. The restitutional assemblage: the art of transformative justice at the Parramatta Girls Home, Australia Anna Reading; 12. Indivisibility as a way of life: transformation in micro-processes of peace in northern Uganda Pamina Firchow and Roger MacGinty; 13. HIJOS: breaking social silence with another kind of justice Marina Sitrin; 14. Conclusion: towards transformative justice.