The Overview outlines the structure of the book and sketches out the broad arc of my argument for the reader. Chapter One serves as an introduction to the volume by discussing the origins and trajectory of the transitional justice project, including those assumptions that have created the field’s “dominant script.” The core of the book is then divided into two parts. In Part One, consisting of chapters 2-4, I examine what I call transitional justice “peripheries”—those aspects of transitional justice policy and practice that have historically been pushed to the margins as a result of the dominant script. I elucidate the dynamics of the dominant script and engage with critical questions as to what transitional justice might become going forward. In Part Two, consisting of chapters 5-7, I focus on the question of possible alternative paradigms or groundings for the field, and specifically to the interface between transitional justice and post-conflict peacebuilding. I ask whether the field might be helpfully re-conceptualized using the lens of peacebuilding. This book concludes in Chapter Eight with a look at some of the potential policy implications that flow from the critiques presented in chapters one to seven.