Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation: Youth and the Practice of Transitional Justice

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

Caitlin Mollica is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.