While Africa has rich experience in pursuing transitional justice, it is seen for the most part as a site for implementation of the mainstream model that draws on a liberal theory of peace and justice1¹ with its emphasis on liberal traditions of accountability.2² Indeed, despite the influence of South Africa’s approach to this field,3³ the role of Africa in the production of knowledge with respect to the discourse on and practice of transitional justice is characterized in the main by the importation or use of ‘alien knowledge, narrative and practice.’4⁴ The forms of ‘expert’ knowledge which are usually promoted through transitional justice tend to be legal, foreign and based on models to be replicated elsewhere.5⁵ In this context, the potential of Africa to exercise epistemic agency has as a result been limited. Unable to meet ‘the degree of intellectual rigor’ required ‘to unravel the complex layers that form the conflict jig-saw puzzle,’6⁶ the dominant transitional justice model has tended to overpromise and underdeliver.7⁷

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非洲的过渡时期司法政策制定：行使认知能动性并推动过渡时期司法的前沿

虽然非洲在追求过渡正义方面拥有丰富的经验，但它在很大程度上被视为实施主流模式的场所，该模式借鉴了自由主义的和平与正义理论 1 ¹并强调自由的问责制传统。^{2 2}事实上，尽管南非在这一领域的方法产生了影响，3 ³非洲在关于过渡时期司法的话语和实践的知识生产中的作用的主要特征是引入或使用“外来知识、叙事和practice.'4 ⁴这通常是通过过渡司法推动的“专家”知识的形式往往是法律，外交和基于模型被复制elsewhere.5 ⁵在这种情况下，非洲行使认知能动性的潜力因此受到限制。无法满足“解开构成冲突拼图的复杂层次”6 ⁶所需的“智力严谨程度”，6 ⁶占主导地位的过渡正义模型往往会过度承诺和交付不足。^{7 7}