Zenker, Olaf Anders, Gerhard 2014 Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order. Three issues seem to be crucial to the understanding of transitional justice in the context of wider social debates on justice and political change: the problem of ‘new beginnings’, of finding a foundation for that which explicitly breaks with the past; the discrepancies between lofty promises and the messy realities of transitional justice in action; and the dialectic between logics of the exception and the ordinary, employed to legitimize or resist transitional justice mechanisms. These are the particular focus of this Introduction. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/305486 https://sonar.ch/documents/305486/files/2014_Anders_Zenker_Transition.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/dech.12096 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Development and Change. - Wiley. - 2014, vol. 45, no. 3, p. 395-414 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/39 Transition and Justice : An Introduction http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501