Julia Viebach is Departmental Lecturer in the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Her work centres on violence, memory, trauma and transitional justice with a focus on post-genocide Rwanda. She is the curator of the award-winning Kwibuka Rwanda photographic exhibition and Traces of the Past installation at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Dagmar Hovestädt is Head of Communication and Research of the Stasi Records Archive in Berlin. She was a journalist for 20 years before joining the archive in 2011. Her renewed academic interest focuses on the intersection of archives, dealing with the past and human rights.Ulrike Lühe is Senior Researcher at Swisspeace, an associated institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the politics of archives, knowledge production and expertise in the field of transitional justice and covers different actors reaching from regional organisations to corporations.

• Introduction: Beyond evidence: the use of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe1. Transitional archives: towards a conceptualisation of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach2. From the forerunners of document collection to the trial of Klaus Barbie and beyond: the transitional justice journey of the Izieu telegramUlrike Lühe and Romain Ledauphin3. Remembering atrocities: legal archives and the discursive conditions of witnessingBenjamin Thorne4. There was this goat: the archive for justice as a remedy for epistemic injustices in truth commissionsDietlinde Wouters5. Non-recurrence, reconciliation, and transitional justice: situating accountability in Northern Ireland’s oral history archiveEliscia Kinder6. Personal archives and transitional justice in Colombia: the Fonds of Fabiola Lalinde and Mario AgudeloMarta Lucía Giraldo and Daniel Jerónimo Tobón

Julia Viebach is Departmental Lecturer in the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Her work centres on violence, memory, trauma and transitional justice with a focus on post-genocide Rwanda. She is the curator of the award-winning Kwibuka Rwanda photographic exhibition and Traces of the Past installation at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Dagmar Hovestädt is Head of Communication and Research of the Stasi Records Archive in Berlin. She was a journalist for 20 years before joining the archive in 2011. Her renewed academic interest focuses on the intersection of archives, dealing with the past and human rights.Ulrike Lühe is Senior Researcher at Swisspeace, an associated institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the politics of archives, knowledge production and expertise in the field of transitional justice and covers different actors reaching from regional organisations to corporations.

• Introduction: Beyond evidence: the use of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe1. Transitional archives: towards a conceptualisation of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach2. From the forerunners of document collection to the trial of Klaus Barbie and beyond: the transitional justice journey of the Izieu telegramUlrike Lühe and Romain Ledauphin3. Remembering atrocities: legal archives and the discursive conditions of witnessingBenjamin Thorne4. There was this goat: the archive for justice as a remedy for epistemic injustices in truth commissionsDietlinde Wouters5. Non-recurrence, reconciliation, and transitional justice: situating accountability in Northern Ireland’s oral history archiveEliscia Kinder6. Personal archives and transitional justice in Colombia: the Fonds of Fabiola Lalinde and Mario AgudeloMarta Lucía Giraldo and Daniel Jerónimo Tobón

Julia Viebach is Departmental Lecturer in the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Her work centres on violence, memory, trauma and transitional justice with a focus on post-genocide Rwanda. She is the curator of the award-winning Kwibuka Rwanda photographic exhibition and Traces of the Past installation at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Dagmar Hovestädt is Head of Communication and Research of the Stasi Records Archive in Berlin. She was a journalist for 20 years before joining the archive in 2011. Her renewed academic interest focuses on the intersection of archives, dealing with the past and human rights.Ulrike Lühe is Senior Researcher at Swisspeace, an associated institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the politics of archives, knowledge production and expertise in the field of transitional justice and covers different actors reaching from regional organisations to corporations.

• Introduction: Beyond evidence: the use of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe1. Transitional archives: towards a conceptualisation of archives in transitional justiceJulia Viebach2. From the forerunners of document collection to the trial of Klaus Barbie and beyond: the transitional justice journey of the Izieu telegramUlrike Lühe and Romain Ledauphin3. Remembering atrocities: legal archives and the discursive conditions of witnessingBenjamin Thorne4. There was this goat: the archive for justice as a remedy for epistemic injustices in truth commissionsDietlinde Wouters5. Non-recurrence, reconciliation, and transitional justice: situating accountability in Northern Ireland’s oral history archiveEliscia Kinder6. Personal archives and transitional justice in Colombia: the Fonds of Fabiola Lalinde and Mario AgudeloMarta Lucía Giraldo and Daniel Jerónimo Tobón