OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Transitional Justice is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Long Shadows of Gwangju: Transitional Criminal Justice in South Korea	18
Palestine as a Litmus Test for Transitional Justice	11
Justice Now and Later: How Measures Taken to Address Wrongdoings during Armed Conflict Affect Postconflict Justice	10
Transitional and Climate Justice: New Opportunities for Justice in Transition	9
Youth on the Frontlines: Preventing Human Rights Abuses in Violent Contexts, A Case Study of LUCHA in the DR of Congo	9
‘Co-Conspirators in Murder’: Dirty Wars, Meta-Conflicts and Bipartisan Transitional Justice	8
Youth, Transitional Justice and Art: Documenting War on the Streets of Sana’a, Yemen	7
Urbicide and Coming to Terms with the Past: Everyday Acts of Return and Reconstruction in Post-war Nahr el Bared	6
The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice	6
Whose Testimony? Thinking about Other-Than-Human Witnesses in Transitional Justice	5
How Justice Becomes Part of the Deal: Pre-Conditions for the Inclusion of Transitional Justice Provisions in Peace Agreements	5
Transitions without Justice: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal	5
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice	5
Books Received	4
Public Attitudes toward On-Going Transitional Justice in Latvia: Sometimes More Isn’t Better	4
The Stuff from the Siege: Transitional Justice and the Power of Everyday Objects in Museums	4
Editorial Special Section: ‘Transitional Justice and Nature: A Curious Silence’	4
Advancing Local US Transitional Justice Initiatives: A University Partnership Alongside Descendant Communities	4
Books Received	4
Apologies for and Acknowledgements of Historical Violence and Struggles for Justice	4
Situating Reparations for Ukraine within a Broader Transitional Justice Process	4
Connecting Truth Commissions, Socioeconomic Harms and Child Participation	4
‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism	3
Books Received	3
‘Global South’ Voices Are Muted in Debates over the Crime of Aggression: What Three Books on Illegal War Tell Us About Why	3

Zouglou Visions of Transitional Justice	3
Transitional Justice and the Legacy of The Second World War	2
Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland	2
Purging Disloyal Courts in Democratic Transitions and Judicial Preferences	2
The Transformation of Lithuanian Memories of Soviet Crimes to Genocide Recognition	2
Remembering Martial Law: An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines	2
Hiding in Plain Sight: Victim Participation in the Search for Disappeared Persons, a Contribution to (Procedural) Justice	2
Birangonas, Gender and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh	2
Harm, Relationality and More-than-Human Worlds: Developing the Field of Transitional Justice in New Posthumanist Directions	2
How Truth Commissions Can Effect Transformative Change in a Polarized Age	2
Corrigendum to: Democratizing Truth: An Analysis of Truth Commissions in the United States	2
Art as a Generational and Geographical Transversal Tool in the Hands of Youth: Srebrenica Is Dutch History	2
Game-based Learning: Introducing the Subject of Transitional Justice through a Serious Game	1
Patriarchy is a Judge: Young Feminists and LGBTQ+ Activists Performing Transitional Justice in Chile	1
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru	1
Queering the Global Governance of Transitional Justice: Tensions and (Im)Possibilities	1
The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition	1
Decolonization of Postcolonial Africa: A Structural Justice Project More Radical than Transitional Justice	1
Imagining Collective Reincorporation: Perceptions of Colombia’s Novel Approach to Peacebuilding	1
Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship	1
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes	1
Snapshots of Ghana’s Contested Restorative Justice Programme	1
Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response	1
Difficult Stories that Haunt: Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice	1
Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts	1
Notes from the Field: Lessons Learned from Investigating the Past in Northern Ireland	1
The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice	1
Books Received	1
Transitional Justice and the Problem of Democratic Decline	1
Reckoning with Reconciliation: Art and Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Books Received	1
Using Strategic Litigation and Universal Jurisdiction to Advance Accountability for Serious International Crimes	1
Education and Transitional Justice: Como, Para, Sobre	1