http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/b698d7baad48cb92 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-malleability-of-transitional-justice/ The Malleability of Transitional Justice - Community-Based Memorialisation and Emancipatory Redress in Guatemala Bonifazi, Gretel Mejia eng 2026-11-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Decolonisation Genocide Guatemala indigenous rights memorialisation Reparations Transitional Justice Victim-Survivors Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Transitional justice began with mothers marching on the Plaza de Mayo and survivors searching for their dead. It returned to them as a UN toolkit with fixed pillars. Today, critics say the field has reached an impasse. In Guatemala’s Maya Ixil region, genocide survivors are reclaiming it anyway. They are building their own archives and museums, where hunger, harm to the land and five centuries of dispossession are part of the record.