The international transitional justice movement – while making great strides in achieving justice and uncovering the truth of what happened during the decades-long internal armed conflict – ultimately constructs a narrow understanding of the conflict and postconflict in Guatemala. Domestic and international human rights trials and truth commission reports focus, sometimes necessarily, on stories of suffering and the costs of war, and often leave out stories of resilience and triumph. Drawing on Indigenous scholarship about concepts of desire-centered work, refusal, survivance and thrivance, I argue for the need to shift fundamental assumptions and move beyond traditional approaches to transitional justice, identifying important lessons learned. A collaborative research project with a small Maya Mam Indigenous town in western Guatemala brings to the fore voices often missing from mainstream narratives about conflict by centering the community’s grassroots development, and self-governance projects through which genocide survivors are building new, vibrant futures for themselves and their children.

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超越过渡正义：向危地马拉土著玛雅玛姆抵抗运动学习

国际过渡司法运动——在实现正义和揭露长达数十年的国内武装冲突期间所发生事情的真相方面取得了长足进步——最终构建了对危地马拉冲突和冲突后的狭隘理解。国内和国际人权审判和真相委员会的报告有时必然会关注苦难的故事和战争的代价，而往往忽略复原力和胜利的故事。借鉴土著学术关于以欲望为中心的工作、拒绝、生存和繁荣的概念，我认为有必要改变基本假设，超越传统的过渡正义方法，确定重要的经验教训。