While transitional justice processes call upon individuals and societies to recall and remember, memory practices – and more specifically the frequent politicisation of memory in transitional societies – can undermine transitional justice goals, including peace and reconciliation. This interdisciplinary article seeks to re-think the relationship between transitional justice and memory. It does so by introducing the concept of ecological memory, a supra-political form of memory centred on complex ecosystem responses to disturbance events and the development of resilience to future shocks and stressors. Transposing the concept of ecological memory to the novel context of transitional justice can ultimately foster a new alignment between memory and transitional justice that is more conducive to the realisation of the latter’s core goals. Drawing on empirical data, the article seeks to demonstrate that transitional justice processes can contribute to fostering ecological memory by giving attention to the ecological legacies of war crimes and human rights violations.

虽然过渡时期司法程序要求个人和社会回忆和记住，但记忆习俗（尤其是过渡社会中记忆的频繁政治化）会破坏包括和平与和解在内的过渡司法目标。这篇跨学科的文章试图重新思考过渡时期正义与记忆之间的关系。它是通过引入生态记忆的概念来实现的，生态记忆是一种超政治形式的记忆，其核心是复杂的生态系统对干扰事件的响应以及对未来冲击和压力的适应能力的发展。将生态记忆的概念转移到过渡司法的新环境中，最终可以促进记忆与过渡司法之间的新契合，更有利于后者的核心目标的实现。