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Edited Volumes & Special Issues

(with Teresa Koloma Beck) (eds.): Special Forum: Dekolonisiert Euch! Kritische Betrachtungen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 11(2), 2022. 

(with Annika Björkdahl) (eds.): Space for Peace. Special Issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2022.

(with Timothy Williams) (eds.): Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Action, Motivations and Dynamics (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity), Abington: Routledge, 2018.

(with Ulrike Krause) (eds.): Gender, Violence, Refugees (Series on Forced Migration), Oxford: Berghan Publishers, 2017 (hardback), 2019 (paperback).

(with Annika Björkdahl) (eds.): Spatializing Peace and Conflict. Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence (Series Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016 (hardback), 2019 (paperback).

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa) (eds.): After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice. Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016. (open access: www.nurembergacademy.org/resources/acceptance-online-platform/overview/)

(with Teresa Koloma Beck, Christian Braun and Friederike Mieth) (eds.): Transitional Justice Theories (Series Transitional Justice). Abington: Routledge, 2014 (hardback), 2015 (paperback).

(with Stefanie Schäfer) (eds.): Memorials in Times of Transition, Antwerp: Intersentia (Series on Transitional Justice Vol. 16), 2014. 

(with Thorsten Bonacker) (eds.): Transitions from Violence. Special Issue of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013. 

(with Ruth Stanley) (eds.): Gender in Transitional Justice, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 

(with Thomas Kater) (eds.): Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011. 

Monographs

(with Johanna Mannergren, Annika Björkdahl, Stefanie Kappler, and Timothy Williams): Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: University Press, 2024. (Open Access here)

Raum in den Internationalen Beziehungen. Springer essential, 2021.

Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda: Remembering after Violence (Series on Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Reviewed Articles & Chapters

(with Annika Björkdahl): Introducing Space for Peace, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2022, 16(5): 536-544 (open access). 

(with Annika Björkdahl): Space for Peace: A Research Agenda, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2022, 16(5): 659-676 (open access). 

Tracing the Politics of Aesthetics: From Imposing, via Counter to Affirmative Memorials to Violence, Memory Studies, June 2021 (online first, open access).

(with Timothy Williams): A 5* Destination: The Creation of New Transnational Moral Spaces of Remembrance on TripAdvisor, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2020 (open access).

Gerechtigkeit für Syrien aus der Distanz? Das Weltrechtsprinzip und die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen in Deutschland. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 2020, 9 (1), p. 179-87.

The Global Textual Legacies of Truth Commissions. Narratives on Violence in the Reports of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya and Beyond. In: Sarkin, Jeremy (ed.): The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2019, pp. 99-118.

(with Timothy Williams): Introducing Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. In: Williams, Timothy/Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (eds.): Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Action, Motivations and Dynamics. Abington: Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-13.

(with Ulrike Krause): Gender, Violence, Refugees. In Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Krause, Ulrike (eds.): Gender, Violence, Refugees. Oxford: Berghan, 2017, pp. 1-20.

(with Annika Björkdahl): Spatializing Peace and Conflict: An Introduction. In: Björkdahl, Annika/Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (eds.): Spatializing Peace and Conflict. Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016, pp. 1-23.

(with Annika Björkdahl): Memorials and Transitional Justice. In: Simic, Olivera (ed.): Understanding Transitional Justice, Textbook, Abington: Routledge, 2017 and 2020, pp. 249-268.

Frictional Spaces: Transitional Justice between the Global and the Local. In: Björkdahl, Annika/Höglund, Kristine et al. (eds.): Peacebuilding and Friction. Global and Local Encounters in Post-Conflict Societies. Abington: Routledge, 2016, pp. 17-31.

Truth Commissions, Human Rights and Gender. Normative Changes in Transitional Moments. In: Debiel, Tobias et al. (eds.): Peacebuilding in Crisis: Rethinking Paradigms and Practises of Global Cooperation. Abington: Routledge, 2016, pp. 137-145.

(with Ulrike Krause and Lisa Loeper): Sexuelle Gewalt an Frauen in kriegsbedingten Flüchtlingslagern. Special Issue Krieg, Macht, Geschlecht, Peripherie 133, 2014, pp. 71-89.

Narrative Truths: On the Construction of the Past in Truth Commissions. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Koloma Beck, Teresa/Braun, Christian/Mieth, Friederike (eds.): Transitional Justice Theories, Abington: Routledge, 2014, pp. 184-200.

(with Teresa Koloma Beck, Christian Braun and Friederike Mieth): Introduction. Transitional Justice Theories. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Koloma Beck, Teresa/Braun, Christian/Mieth, Friederike (eds.): Transitional Justice Theories, Abington: Routledge, 2014, pp. 1-16.

Detained in the Memorial Hohenschönhausen. Heterotopias, Narratives and Transitions from the Stasi Past in Germany. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Schäfer, Stephanie (eds.): Memorials in Times of Transition, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2014, pp. 97-124.

(with Stefanie Schäfer): Introduction. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Schäfer, Stephanie (eds.): Memorials in Times of Transition, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2014, pp. 1-26.

(with Teresa Koloma Beck, Friederike Mieth and Julia Viebach): Redressing Violence in Sub-Sahara Africa. In: Arrigo, Bruce/Bersot, Heather (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies, Abington: Routledge 2014, pp. 472-491.

(with Thorsten Bonacker): Transitions from Violence. Analysing the Effects of Transitional Justice, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013, pp. 4-9.

(with Magdalena Zolkos): Introduction: Gender in Transitional Justice. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Stanley, Ruth (eds.): Gender in Transitional Justice, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1-36.

Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide. In: Assmann, Aleida/Shortt, Linda (eds.): Memory and Political Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 72-88.

Narration und Transition. Vom Umgang mit der Vergangenheit in Wahrheitskommissionen nach extremer Gewalt. In: Ferhadbegović, Sabina/Weiffen, Brigitte (eds.): Bürgerkriege erzählen, Konstanz: University of Konstanz Press, 2011, pp. 289-302.

(with Friedericke Mieth and Julia Viebach): Transitional Justice und Entwicklung in Afrika. Friedens-Warte Vol. 85, No. 1-2, 2010, pp. 83-109.

Nation, Narration, Unification. The Politics of History Teaching after the Rwandan Genocide. Special Issue on Reconciliation in Rwanda, International Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 11, No. 7, 2009, pp. 31-53.

We are Pretending Peace: Local Memory and the Absence of Social Transformation and Reconciliation in Rwanda. In: Clark, Philip/Kaufman, Zachary D. (eds.): After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, pp. 153-171.

Gewählte Amnesie. Die soziale Dimension von Erinnern und Vergessen nach dem Völkermord in Ruanda, Peripherie, Vol. 28, No. 109/110, 2008, pp. 131-147.

Frieden Entwickeln? Eine kritische Analyse der Strategien der Internationalen Gebergemeinschaft zur Friedenskonsolidierung in Ruanda, Sicherheit und Frieden (S+F), Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 77-81.

Ethnographic Research after Violent Conflicts: Personal Reflections on Dilemmas and Challenges, Journal of Peace, Conflict & Development, No. 10, 2007, pp. 1-9.

Dividing and Uniting: The Use of Citizenship Discourses in Conflict and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Global Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006, pp. 101-113.

In-Between War and Peace: Identities, Boundaries and Change after Violent Conflict, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2006, pp. 3-21.

Remembering to Forget: Chosen Amnesia as a Strategy for Local Coexistence in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2006, pp. 131-150.

„The Truth Heals“? Gacaca Jurisdiction and the Consolidation of Peace in Rwanda, Die Friedens-Warte, Vol. 80, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 113-129.

Development Assistance and Conflict Assessment Methodology, Journal for Conflict, Security and Development (CSD), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003, pp. 117-25.

Non-Reviewed Publications

(with Teresa Koloma Beck): Einleitung: Dekolonisiert Euch! Kritische Betrachtungen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 11(2), 2022 (open access).

(with Priya Basil and Teresa Koloma Beck): On remembering, unlearning, and creating new stories: An interview with Priya Basil conducted by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Teresa Koloma Beck. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 11(2), 2022 (open access).

Raum und internationale Politik. In: Sauer, F., von Hauff, L., Masala, C. (eds): Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2022.

Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes, in: Rachid Ouaissa/Friederike Pannewick/Alena Strohmaier (eds.): Re-Configurations. Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa, Springer, 2020, pp. 25-35. [whole volume open access https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-3-658-31160-5 ]

Memorials and Transitional Justice, in: Oliver Richmond/Gëzim Visoka (eds.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2020 (online first).

The Politics of the Present. In: Stan, Lavinia/Nedelsky, Nadya (eds.): Cambridge Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2013 + 2019, pp. 287-288.

Transitional Justice. In: Chris Brown/Robyn Eckersley (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 153-65.

Hakikat Komisyonları, İnsan Hakları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Geçiş Dönemlerinde Normatif Değişimler, in: Nisan Alıcı/Güneş Daşlı (eds.): Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Barış, Ankara: Dipnot Press, 2018, 149-175.

(with Stefanie Schäfer) Memorials in Transitions: Kollektive Formen des Gedenkens. In: Anja Mihr/Gerd Pickel/Susanne Pickels (eds.): Handbuch Transitional Justice, Springer, 2018, 45-62.

(with Patrick Rowanda): Changing Patterns of Acceptance. International Criminal Justice after the Rwandan Genocide. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2017.

Introduction. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016. 

Normativität der Ambivalenz. In: Dreit, Karolina,/Schumacher, Nina/Abraham, Anke (eds.): Ambivalenzen der Normativität in kritisch-feministischer Wissenschaft, Sulzbach: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2016, pp. 153-6. 

Truth en route. The Migration of Norms and Ideas. In: Bockenförder, Markus/Krupke, Nadja/Michaelis, Philipp (eds.): A Multi-Disciplinary Mosaic: Reflections of Global Cooperation and Migration, Global Dialogues 13, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Center for Global Cooperation Research, 2016, pp. 38-40. 

Zur Konstruktion von Wahrheit. Die Aufarbeitung von Menschenrechtsverbrechen durch Wahrheitskommissionen. In: Brunner, José/Stahl, Daniel (eds.): Recht auf Wahrheit. Zur Genese eines neuen Menschenrechts (Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016, pp. 163-173. 

Relating Spaces: Transitional Justice between the Global and the Local. In: Gal-Or, Noemi/Schwelling, Birgit (eds.): Global Cooperation in Transitional Justice. Challenges, Possibilities and Limits. Global Dialogues 6, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation, 2015, pp. 20-24. 

Vom Seminarraum ins Feld und zurück – Potentiale und Herausforderungen von Feldforschung im Studium. In: Bös, Mathias/Schmitt, Lars/Zimmer, Kerstin (eds.): Konflikte vermitteln? Lehren und Lernen in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2015, pp. 116-123. 

Vergangenes Unrecht aufarbeiten: Eine globale Perspektive. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 63 (25), 2013, pp. 31-36. 

Исправить несправедливость. Глобальная перспектива. In: Журнальный зал | Отечественные записки, Vol 6 (57), 2013. http://magazines.russ.ru/oz/2013/6/18b-pr.html 

Redressing Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice and the Labelling of Women as ‘Victims’. In: Bonacker, Thorsten/Safferling, Christoph (eds.): Victims in Transitional Justice, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2013, pp. 91-100. 

„Ich bin dann mal weg“. Feldforschung im Studium der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, No. 1, Vol. 2, 2012, pp. 130-138. 

„Wenn du Frieden willst, pflege die Gerechtigkeit“. Frieden und Gerechtigkeit nach gewaltsamen Konflikten und Diktaturen, Wissenschaft und Frieden, No. 1, 2012, pp. 30-32. 

(with Magdalena Zolkos): Das Gender von Gerechtigkeit nach Krieg, Gewalt und Unterdrückung. Geschlechterdimensionen der Transitional Justice. In: Engels, Bettina/Gayer, Corinna (eds.): Geschlechterverhältnisse, Frieden und Konflikt, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011, pp. 135-149. 

(with Anika Oettler): Was bedeutet Transitional Justice? In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Kater, Thomas (eds.): Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011, pp. 21-38. 

Einleitung: Der schwierige Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Kater, Thomas (eds.): Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit, Baden- Baden: Nomos, 2011, pp. 7-20. 

Globale Rechtsprechung, lokale Konflikte. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof als friedensstiftende Maßnahme in Uganda? In: Bonacker, Thorsten/Free, Jan/Daxner, Michael/Zürcher, Christoph (eds.): Zur Soziologie der Interventionsgesellschaften, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2009, pp. 101-118. 

Friede und Gerechtigkeit nach gewaltsamen Konflikten, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, No. 8, 2009, pp. 22-27. 

Wahrheitskommissionen: Das Enthüllen der Vergangenheit als Weg zum Frieden?, Wort und Antwort Vol. 48, No. 4 (Sonderheft „Wahrheit“), 2007, pp. 81-85. 

(with Bernhard Moltmann): Versöhnung: Gratwanderung zwischen Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit. In: Mutz, Reinhard et al (eds.): Friedensgutachten 2006, Münster u.a.: LIT Verlag, 2006, pp. 168-176. 

Living in the Shadows of Genocide, Index on Censorship, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2005, pp. 43-47. 

Working Papers

(with Jürgen Bast, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Michaela Hailbronner, Michael Knipper, Greta Olson, Frederik von Harbou, Janna Wessels, Christine Wiezorek,  and Dariuš Zifonun (2023) Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Eine Forschungsagenda, MeDiMi Working Paper Nr. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-17716.

How does acceptance contribute to prevention of atrocities? In: International Nuremberg Principles Academy (ed.): 10 Years after the Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice: The Fight against Impunity at a Crossroad, 2018, p. 29-31. 

(with Annika Björkdahl, Johanna Mannergren-Selimovic, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams): Memory Politics, Cultural Heritage and Peace. Introducing an Analytical Framework to Study Mnemonic Formations. Research Cluster on Peace, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Working Paper No 1, 2017. Link

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa): Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries. 10 Key Findings. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2017. Link

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa): Assessing the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries – a Methodology. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016. Link

Transitional Justice als Weg zu Frieden und Sicherheit. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, SFB Governance Working Paper Series, Nr. 15, Berlin: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 700, 2008.

Between Past and Future. An Assessment of the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Forschung DSF No. 15, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF), 2008.

Demokratisierung, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (ed.), Innerstaatliche Konflikte (Dossierinhalt: Konzepte, Strategien und Tätigkeitsfelder der Bearbeitung innerstaatlicher Konflikte), bpb-Online-Dossier, Bonn: 2007.

Transitional Justice: Handreichung, Plattform Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung, 2007.

(with Bernard Tabaire): Preventing Violent Conflicts? UK Policy on Uganda, ISIS Policy Paper 87, London, March 2003.

Weighing Up the Pros and Cons of NEPAD, London: CSDG Bulletin No. 15, 2002.

Book Reviews

Grief as a Resource for Politics. A Review of Judith Butler, Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London/New York: Verso, 2004), Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006.

Review of Michael Howard: The Invention of Peace. In: Journal for Conflict, Security and Development (CSD), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002, pp. 168-171.

Review of Human Rights Watch: Hostile to Democracy. The Movement System and Political Representation in Uganda. In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2000, pp. 225-227.

Blogs & Podcasts

Women, Gender and Transitional Justice, FriEnt Blog, 2019. Link

(with Anne Menzel) Sexuelle Gewalt in Konflikten: Endlich soll wirksam gehandelt werden – nur wie?, DVPW Blog, 2019. Link

Frauen, Gender und Transitional Justice, PeaceLab Blog, 2018. Link

(with Timothy Williams): Exploring the Memory Kaleidoscope in Berlin, Peace & Memory Blog, 2018. Link

Of Other Spaces. Analysing Memorials to Mass Violence through Foucault’s Notion of Heterotopia. Oxford Transitional Justice Seminars, 2013. Link