Mass Violence, Environmental Harm, and the Limits of Transitional Justice

The relationship between the environment and mass violence is complex multi-faceted. effects of environmental degradation can destabilize societies cause conflict. Attacks on harm targeted groups, both subsequent transitions have harmful legacies. Given this backdrop, it notable that field transitional justice has paid relatively little attention to intersections degradation. This article interrogates inattention explores limitations possibilities as a means addressing harms associated with violence. makes four key claims. First, "dominance legalism" in produced anthropocentric understandings which exclude victims. Second, justice’s tendency towards neo-colonialism led disregarding worldviews might encourage more environmentally inclusive responses Third, inability redress structural inequalities often left injustices intact. And fourth, field’s complicity normalizing neoliberal capitalism overlooks facilitates future In light these claims, considers whether, where opportunities exist, for "greener"