Transitional Justice for Foxes: Conflict, Pluralism and the Politics of Compromise

By Frank Haldemann

There is a memorable line by ancient Greek poet Archilochus: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' Drawing on this metaphor made popular by Isaiah Berlin, this book sets out to 'think like a fox' about transitional justice in an intellectual environment largely dominated by hedgehogs. Critical of the unitary 'hedgehog-like' vision underlying mainstream discourse, this book proposes a pluralist reading of the field. It asks: What would it mean for transitional justice to constructively deal with conflicts of values and interests in societies grappling with a violent past? And what would it imply to make meaningful room for diversity, to see 'the many' rather than just 'the one'?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108844227
• ISBN13: 9781108844222
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"