ABSTRACT
This article suggests that the study of transitional justice could benefit from the insights of memory studies, and proposes that transitional justice is a first step in ongoing ‘memory cycles’, and that the politics of memory after state violence is qualitatively different from that which occurs in times of peace and normality. It illustrates some of the limitations of abstract normative approaches, and discusses how these and historically grounded and context-specific perspectives may be mobilised as two partial ways of looking at the same reality. It suggests Wilber's framework as a useful device to think in a multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary way about the topic.
