Assessing participation in transitional justice: a case study of victims’ trajectories for redress in the aftermath of the Guatemalan internal armed conflict

The research project explores how victims participate in formal and informal spaces in the aftermath   of the internal armed conflict in Guatemala. The project is rooted in a qualitative case study that examines the experiences of the victims of the Cocop massacre (1981) by foregrounding their different forms of collective action, identities, tensions and demands in their trajectories of mobilization.

Keywords:victim participation, Transitional justice, human rights, Guatemala

Disciplines:Social movements and collective action, Human rights law, Security, peace and conflict, Sociology of law