How can transitional justice take root where there is no transition? This book confronts this central tension by examining the Kurdish conflict in Turkey a context where the absence of a transitional moment has not prevented grassroots actors from building a justice process of their own. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, it maps the transitional justice ecosystem in Turkey: the actors who sustain it, the demands they articulate, the strategies they pursue, and the networks they forge under conditions of ongoing conflict and authoritarian regime.

Rather than treating transitional justice as something imposed from above, the book situates civil society as its driving force, contributing to a broader rethinking of the field. Its conceptual contribution lies in the application of relationality as an analytical lens, drawing on feminist moral philosophy and relational sociology to unpack complex victim agency. The book offers empirical and theoretical tools for scholars and practitioners studying justice struggles in contexts that resist easy categorisation.

Justice without transition: the Kurdish conflict as aparadigmatic case for rethinking transitional justice scholarship 32 interviews and fieldwork with activist-victims, lawyers, filmmakers, rare access to a grassroots justice ecosystem Develops a relational model of victim agency, advancing transitional justice, peacebuilding, and Kurdish studies

Autorentext

Güne Däl is a Cara research fellow in the Department of International Relations, Politics, and History at Loughborough University. Her recent research focuses on diaspora efforts for the transitional justice process in Syria. She teaches on transitional justice, conflict, gender and peace, critical security studies, and Middle East politics.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Relational Agency: An Analytical Framework for Grassroots Activism in Transitional Justice.- Chapter 3: The Transitional Justice Ecosystem in Turkey: Grassroots Actors, Practices, and Strategies.- Chapter 4: Grassroots Actors' Demands and Needs for Justice.- Chapter 5: The Saturday Mothers Movement.- Chapter 6: Truth and Justice Commission for Diyarbakr Prison.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.