Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice. It demonstrates how unique features of this wave of revolutions and popular protests that have swept the Arab world since December 2010 give rise to distinctive concerns and problems relative to transitional justice. The contributors explore how these issues in turn add fresh perspective and nuance to the field more generally. In so doing, it explores fundamental questions of social justice, reconstruction and healing in the context of the Arab Spring.

Including the perspectives of academics and practitioners, Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring will be of considerable interest to those working on the politics of the Middle East, normative political theory, transitional justice, international law, international relations and human rights.

Kirsten J. Fisher is a researcher at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa and an affiliated research fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki. She is the author of Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers.

Robert Stewart is a researcher at McGill University’s Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, and has recently returned to his doctoral studies at the University of Exeter. His work focuses on Islamist groups and Islamist political parties, as well as on transitional justice in the Arab world.