Knowledge for Peace

Edited by Briony Jones, Reader of International Development, Politics and International Studies Department, University of Warwick, UK and Ulrike Lühe, University of Geneva, Switzerland

‘In this book, Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe have done what many academics and policy thinkers are reluctant to do - question orthodoxy in an area of thought that has acquired a high moral plateau. The book reveals a gaping chasm between what is known, and what is unknown about the theoretical underpinnings of transitional justice and the efficiency of the solutions it so confidently prescribes. It is a work that will give researchers, thinkers, and practitioners reason to pause and reflect. It opens the door to doubt and cautions against the rush to declare a final resting point in the quest for solutions to societies in deep social and political torment. This is a critical work that should become a new benchmark for anyone acting and thinking in the field of transitional justice. The book is sure to broaden the intellectual school of transitional justice.’

• Contents:Foreword xii1 Knowledge for peace: transitional justice and the politicsof knowledge in theory and practice 1Briony Jones and Ulrike LühePART I POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR PEACE2 Knowledge production and its politicization withinInternational Relations and Peace Studies 21Burak Toygar Halistoprak3 ‘Knowledge for peace’: integrating power to increase impact 37Laurent Goetschel4 Producing knowledge on and for transitional justice:reflections on a collaborative research project 49Briony Jones, Ulrike Lühe, Gilbert Fokou, KuyangHarriet Logo, Leben Nelson Moro and Serge-Alain Yao N’DaPART II THE INTERLINKED POLITICS OFKNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND AGENDA SETTING5 Knowledge asymmetry and transitional justice in Côte d’Ivoire 75Serge-Alain Yao N’Da and Gilbert Fokou6 Power struggles and the politics of knowledge productionin the Burundian transitional justice process 99Wendy Lambourne7 The politics of knowledge in the emergence of thetransitional justice industry in Zimbabwe: the case of the‘Taking Transitional Justice to the People Programme’, 2009–10 120Shastry Njeru and Tyanai MasiyaPART III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS: EXPERTS ANDEXPERTISE8 Who are the members of truth commissions? 145Dietlinde Wouters9 Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy:an assemblage perspective 167Ulrike Lühe10 Playing politics with knowledge: the works of multipleactors within IGAD PLUS 191Kuyang Harriet Logo11 The meaning of violence and the violence of meaning: thepolitics of knowledge in Burundi 214Stanislas Bigirimana12 Conclusion: empirical insights on the politics ofknowledge production and its transfer into policy and practice 245Briony Jones and Ulrike LüheIndex 267