ABSTRACT
While there have been some limited advances in integrating diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) perspectives, rights, and actors into transitional justice and other peacebuilding processes, the challenges often remain immense. Apart from the need to counter homo-, bi-, lesbo-, and transphobia or the erasure of diverse SOGIESC experiences, this also includes the need to take into account diversity amongst persons who identify under this umbrella term. Drawing on the case studies of Colombia, Lebanon, and Syria, this chapter explores some of the possibilities as well as barriers to advancing diverse SOGIESC rights in conflict-affected contexts more generally, integrating these into transitional justice processes, as well as advancing transitional justice in the first place. Colombia offers us some tentative possibilities and initial lessons learned in this respect. In Lebanon and Syria, however, the chances for any kind of official transitional justice, let alone one that offers justice to persons of diverse SOGIESC, remain extremely distant, necessitating the finding of other avenues to support diverse SOGIESC communities and individuals affected by violence and repression.
