This book addresses the relationship between micro-level memory processes and their relationship to formalised transitional justice mechanisms such as truth commissions, official commemoration, national and international trials and reparation programmes.

General introduction Mina Rauschenbach, Julia Viebach and Stephan Parmentier PART I Memory and transitional justiceInternational memory entrepreneurs’ prescriptions for the remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide: What implications for local understandings of collective victimhood?Mina RauschenbachTransitional justice principles versus survivors’ experience: Conflicting interpretations in Kosovo case study involving missing persons and their memorialisationMelanie Klinkner and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers PART II Memory dynamics in transitional justiceThe micro-politics of remembering “the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi” in Rwanda: On the anonymous dead in Karongi district, western RwandaErin JesseeBottom-up and thought-provoking sites of memoryAnita Ferrara Informal commemoration in post-war Burundi: Exploring the usefulness and the limits of the concept Andrea Purdeková The struggle to remember: Rhodes Must Fall in South AfricaIngrid Samset PART III Localised memory in transitional justicePlace-bound proximity at Rwanda’s genocide memorials: On coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remainsJulia ViebachMissing people and missing stories in the aftermath of genocide: Reclaiming local memories at the places of suffering Hariz HalilovichMusic, testimony, and emotional engagement in alternative memorial ceremonies in Palestine-IsraelLuisa GandolfoEpilogue: Localising memory and reinventing the presentBrandon Hamber