Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
Summary
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 it would mean for transitional justice to constructively deal with conflicts of values and interests in societies grappling with a violent past. And what would it mean to make meaningful room for diversity, to see ‘the many’ rather than just ‘the one’?
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- Transitional Justice for FoxesConflict, Pluralism and the Politics of Compromise, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022