ABSTRACT

Reflecting on lessons learned throughout the chapters in this volume, this concluding chapter offers final concluding thoughts about the possibilities and challenges of integrating masculinities and queer perspectives in transitional justice. To this end, this chapter draws out several implications and contributions of this volume, in the conceptual, analytical, empirical, methodological, and practical sense, offering concluding thoughts. In addition, the chapter also aims to orient our gaze forward, in terms of identifying gaps that still remain unaddressed, mapping out directions for further research, and articulating calls for action in terms of facilitating and advancing more inclusive approaches to gender in dealing with the past. As such, this chapter includes broader observations by way of considering the individual chapters as a whole, coupled with ensuing reflections from both the editors as well as particular contributing authors, thereby offering a range of different perspectives.