Transitional Justice and Enforcing the ‘Peace’ on Palestine

In this chapter, I highlight core transitional justice principles with a view to noting the various components that have come to represent a transitional justice orthodoxy. The convergence between TJ and peacebuilding has evolved to such an extent that the two have become almost synonymous, sharing much in terms of liberal, Eurocentric ideology, and enjoying the benefits that accompany becoming mainstreamed within the operational policies of the UN. In unpacking the ways that peacebuilding has been weaponised against the Palestinians, thus stifling the pursuit of a justice-oriented, decolonial reality, I note how, when pressed into service in areas of ongoing settler colonial violence, TJ interventions can have a deflating effect, particularly when they fail to properly platform the legitimate decolonial demands of an Indigenous community battling against attempts at their permanent erasure.