Good question, can it? Stephen Winter, ‘Can Transitional Justice Decolonize Settler States?’ In I. Saloul, B. Baillie (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Springer 2025 | settler colonial studies blog

Good question, can it? Stephen Winter, ‘Can Transitional Justice Decolonize Settler States?’ In I. Saloul, B. Baillie (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Springer 2025

03Feb25

Abstract: People disagree over transitional justice’s capacity to help decolonize settler states. This entry reviews four challenges to the decolonizing potential of transitional justice. Those challenges attack the lack of a clear transition, inadequacies of justice, the injurious exercise of political authority by settler populations, and the ongoing colonial imposition of the state as a political form. The entry concludes that if transitional justice is to serve decolonizing purposes in settler states, it may need to address Indigenous peoples’ self-government demands.

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