Women and Transitional Justice in Africa and Latin America

Abstract

A gendered reading of transitional justice raises critical questions considering the nature of peace expected to be achieved in post-conflict settings. This chapter assesses the themes that shape these conversations, structured around the recognition of gender-specific harms against women, gender-sensitive reparation policies, understanding gender structural disparities that expose women to certain harms, and engaging women in the institutions and processes of planning and implementing transitional justice mechanisms and processes. These gendered justice gaps discursively shape transitional justice scholarship in Africa and Latin America, as a critical pointer to the state of the field. It underscores the important benefits in the coalescence of gender studies in transitional justice protocol, particularly in the development of the relevant body of scholarship, the ability to learn through transitional justice mechanisms and processes, and the increasing scholarly demand for prioritizing these gender-specific themes in