ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Cambodia and Timor-Leste, where new justice processes have emerged within wider discourses of post- conflict national reconciliation. It argues that these justice processes need to be understood as negotiated outcomes of other spatially extensive processes, actors and events, and as such cannot be considered exclusively in terms of the national context with which they are generally identified. The chapter proceeds through four further discussions: discourses of post-conflict reconciliation, tribunal justice, victim participation, and reparations and non-state practices. Discourses of 'national reconciliation' developed in Cambodia in the late 1980s, in the context of ongoing civil war between the post-1979 government and remnant Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge eventually boycotted the electoral process and resumed their violent campaign. Internationalized tribunals are often supported and directed by post-conflict national governments seeking wider legitimacy, and funded by powerful external states with their own strategic interests and versions.
