Emma Murphy

University of Notre Dame | ND · Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Transitional justice (TJ) has historically struggled with understanding actors in their full complexity. Part of the underlying problem centres around the insistence within dominant TJ approaches on exclusive binary oppositions: agent vs. subject, victim vs. perpetrator, etc. These binaries make it difficult for groups experiencing marginalisation...

Despite their proliferation in post-conflict societies, independent commissions represent an understudied area. Although recent studies have begun to address this gap, questions remain about best practice in commission design, particularly in terms of fostering inclusion. This paper contributes to a burgeoning literature on commissions by comparing...

Recent literature has identified a new avenue for approaching peace in the post-peace agreement sphere: agonistic peace. While much of the nascent scholarship on agonistic peace includes mentions of gender, the link between agonistic peace and gender has yet to be clarified. This paper fills this gap in the literature in three critical ways. First,...

Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women's participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we...

To date, scholarship on agonism has mainly focussed on theoretical development and conceptual refinement. In keeping with the aims of this special issue, this article examines how agonism can be built into the design of peace processes. It asks whether agonistic principles are included in transitional justice mechanisms. To answer this question it...