ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, Debating transitional justice, analyses several key transitional justice debates. These relate to: definitions and understandings of justice; politics versus justice; the timing of TJ interventions; the role of external and local actors; and, the victim/perpetrator binary. The debates demonstrate that TJ has undergone a degree of critical scrutiny and that its parameters are far from settled. However, there is an identifiable orthodoxy that has emerged and that informs practice on the ground. These debates provide the opening for exploring transitional justice in Nepal, and inform Part Three of this book.
