Much has been written about the potential of participatory approaches to entrench and expand transitional justice processes. Yet, evidence-based research on how to understand, organize and evaluate victim participation has lagged behind. Empirical research, moreover, often lacks an explicit conceptualization of participation or adopts existing models that start from an institutional perspective and that normatively hierarchize forms and functions of participation. This article, instead, proposes an actor-oriented analytical framework that outlines participants’ trajectories throughout the transitional justice ecosystem. This framework invites a more rigorous investigation of (a) participants’ identities and interests, (b) the spaces they navigate, (c) the relation between various interests, spaces and temporalities and (d) the open-ended nature of outcomes. We apply this framework to Guatemalan indigenous women’s quest for redress for conflict-related sexual violence. The framework facilitates a different way of understanding impact, rooted in local actors’ multidirectional, context-specific and non-linear engagement with transitional justice.

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参与过渡正义的意义：实证分析的概念建议

关于参与式方法巩固和扩大过渡时期司法进程的潜力，已经写了很多文章。然而，关于如何理解、组织和评估受害者参与的循证研究已经落后。此外，实证研究往往缺乏对参与的明确概念化，或者采用从制度角度出发的现有模型，这些模型对参与的形式和功能进行了规范的分级。相反，本文提出了一个面向参与者的分析框架，该框架概述了参与者在整个过渡司法生态系统中的轨迹。该框架要求对（a）参与者的身份和兴趣，（b）他们导航的空间，（c）各种兴趣之间的关系进行更严格的调查，空间和时间性以及 (d) 结果的开放性。我们将此框架应用于危地马拉土著妇女对与冲突有关的性暴力的补救措施。该框架促进了理解影响的不同方式，植根于地方行为者对过渡司法的多向、特定背景和非线性参与。