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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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