¹ While transitional justice today takes place largely in countries emerging from conflict, its origins lie in transitions from authoritarianism.

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¹⁷ See also Briony Jones’s discussion of the need to unsettle “expert knowledge” in her article “Stories of ‘Success’: Narrative, Expertise, and Claims to Knowledge,” in this special issue.

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