Parents, Children, and the Ripples of Transitional Justice

Kirsten J. Fisher is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Caitlin Mollica is Assistant Professor for the Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

"Wanton wars on children in DRC, Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere make accountability more urgent and more fraught. This much-needed book calls on transitional justice to go beyond shopworn (and often paternalistic) invocations of “best interests of the child” and child-centric processes by paying greater attention to families and inter-generational relationality, as well as to critical childhood studies and care ethics." Lars Waldorf, Northumbria University, UK

• Introduction. Familial Care and Paternalism: The Parent-Child Relationship and Transitional Justice - Kirsten J. Fisher and Caitlin Mollica   PART I: Conceptualising Familial Transitional Justice Relationships  1. Grown-Ups, Grown-Downs, and Pan Generationality – Mark A. Drumbl 2. Childhood and the Parent Subject: Encounters in Public Memory – J. Marshall Beier   3. Queering Childhood and Paternalism in Global Transitional Justice – Caitlin Biddolph   PART II: Governed and Governing Familial Transitional Justice Relationships   4. Rights to Supported Families and Non-Discrimination: The Ugandan National Transitional Justice Response to Children Born of War – Kirsten J. Fisher and Jess Mugero  5. Transitional Justice as an Illusion: The Guatemalan State as Parent– Leonzo Barreno (K’iche’ Maya) 6. Children’s Voices: The Implementation of An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Metis Children, Youth, and Families as a Transitional Justice Tool in Saskatchewan Canada – Jamesy Patrick   7. Child- and Family-Sensitive Transitional Justice Policy Implementation in Africa – Bonny Ibhawoh and Adebisi Alade   8. 'Artisans of Peace': When Children Challenge the Parent/Child Dichotomy in Contexts of Transitional Justice – Cadhla O’Sullivan  PART III: Lived Experience of Familial Transitional Justice Relationships  9. A Search for Belonging: Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda and Post-Conflict Reunification with Paternal Families – Myriam Denov, Nathaniel Mosseau, and Atim Angela Lakor   10. Parents, Children and Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: Intergenerational Echoes of Gacaca Trials – Barbora Holá, Veroni Eichelsheim, Lidewyde Berckmoes and Annemiek Richters11. Undermining Family and Social Relationships in Iraqi Transitional Processes – Yousra Hasona 12. Child Soldiers and Family Reunification in Nepal: Victimhood in the Absence of Justice – Kate Macfarlane   13. Mothers’ and Children’s Resilience in the Context of the Years of Lead and their Involvement in the Transitional Justice Process in Morocco – Aziz Saidi   PART IV: Concluding Reflections  14. Reflections on the Parent-Child Relationship in International Relations, Childhood Studies, and Transitional Justice – Caitlin Mollica and Kirsten J. Fisher15. Reappearing what Disappears: Children, Families, and Relationships in Justice, Transitions, and Transitional Justice – Mark Kersten16. Relationalities and Temporalities Beyond Binaries – Helen Berents