Transitional justice, like other peacebuilding endeavours, strives to create change in the world and to produce knowledge that is useful. However, the politics of how this knowledge is produced, shared and rendered legitimate depends upon the relationships between different epistemic communities, the way in which transitional justice has developed as a field and the myriad contexts in which it is embedded at local, national and international levels. In particular, forms of ‘expert’ knowledge tend to be legal, foreign and based on models to be replicated elsewhere. Work on epistemic communities of peacebuilding can be usefully brought to bear on transitional justice, speaking to current debates in the literature on positionality, justice from below, marginalisation and knowledge imperialism. This article offers two contributions to the field of transitional justice: (1) an analysis of the way the field has developed as an epistemic community(ies) and the relevance of this for a politics of knowledge; and (2) an argument for the politics of knowledge to be more widely discussed and understood as a factor in shaping transitional justice policy and practice, and as a call to a more ethical relationship with the supposed beneficiaries of transitional justice interventions.

与其他建设和平努力一样，过渡时期司法努力创造世界变化，并产生有用的知识。但是，这种知识如何产生，共享和合法化的政治取决于不同认知社区之间的关系，过渡司法作为一个领域的发展方式以及将其嵌入地方，国家和国际的多种环境。水平。特别是，“专家”知识的形式往往是合法的，外国的，并且基于要在其他地方复制的模型。建设和平的认识论社区的工作可以有益地影响过渡时期的正义，在有关地位，底层正义，边缘化和知识帝国主义的文献中，对当前的辩论进行讨论。本文对过渡司法领域做出了两点贡献：（1）分析该领域发展为认知社区的方式，以及该领域与知识政治的相关性；（2）关于对知识政治进行更广泛讨论和理解的论点，它是塑造过渡司法政策和实践的一个因素，并呼吁与所谓的过渡司法干预的受益人建立更道德的关系。