Knowledge for Peace

Edited by Briony Jones, Reader of International Development, Politics and International Studies Department, University of Warwick, UK and Ulrike Lühe, Researcher, swisspeace, an associated Institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland

Contents:

Foreword xii

1 Knowledge for peace: transitional justice and the politics
of knowledge in theory and practice 1
Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe

PART I POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR PEACE
2 Knowledge production and its politicization within
International Relations and Peace Studies 21
Burak Toygar Halistoprak
3 ‘Knowledge for peace’: integrating power to increase impact 37
Laurent Goetschel
4 Producing knowledge on and for transitional justice:
reflections on a collaborative research project 49
Briony Jones, Ulrike Lühe, Gilbert Fokou, Kuyang
Harriet Logo, Leben Nelson Moro and Serge-Alain Yao N’Da

PART II THE INTERLINKED POLITICS OF
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND AGENDA SETTING
5 Knowledge asymmetry and transitional justice in Côte d’Ivoire 75
Serge-Alain Yao N’Da and Gilbert Fokou
6 Power struggles and the politics of knowledge production
in the Burundian transitional justice process 99
Wendy Lambourne
7 The politics of knowledge in the emergence of the
transitional justice industry in Zimbabwe: the case of the
‘Taking Transitional Justice to the People Programme’, 2009–10 120
Shastry Njeru and Tyanai Masiya

PART III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS: EXPERTS AND
EXPERTISE
8 Who are the members of truth commissions? 145
Dietlinde Wouters
9 Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy:
an assemblage perspective 167
Ulrike Lühe
10 Playing politics with knowledge: the works of multiple
actors within IGAD PLUS 191
Kuyang Harriet Logo
11 The meaning of violence and the violence of meaning: the
politics of knowledge in Burundi 214
Stanislas Bigirimana
12 Conclusion: empirical insights on the politics of
knowledge production and its transfer into policy and practice 245
Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe

Index 267