In Chapter Seven, I ask whether it might be possible to develop a more emancipatory “transitional justice as peacebuilding” narrative. I argue that the central problem being analyzed is not that human rights, the rule of law, good governance, democracy or other key liberal goods are themselves undesirable or unworthy goals of the transitional justice enterprise. Much of the critique leveled therefore stems from the reductionism, chauvinism and arrogance of a particularly narrow and neoliberal form of transitional justice. I contend that the recovery of alternative liberalisms and associated concepts is a necessary prelude to imagining what an emancipatory “transitional justice as peacebuilding” narrative might look like, offering several concepts from critical peacebuilding theory—including “the everyday,” “popular peace,” and “hybridity”—that might serve as useful correctives to historically narrow assumptions. Taken together, I argue, critical reflection along these lines can help to lay the groundwork for a transitional-justice-as-peacebuilding paradigm that reflects a commitment to human rights ideals and the consolidation of a more open-textured, contextually relevant and genuine positive peace.