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Publikationen

Edited Volumes & Special Issues

(with Teresa Koloma Beck) (eds.): Special Forum: Dekolonisiert Euch! Kritische Betrachtungen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Zeitschrift für Friedens-und Konfliktforschung, 11(2), 2022. https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.uni-marburg.de/10.1007/s42597-023-00098-8 (Open Access)

(with Annika Björkdahl) (eds.): Space for Peace. Special Issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(5), 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/16/5 (partly Open Access)

(with Timothy Williams) (eds.): Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Action, Motivations and Dynamics (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity), Abington: Routledge, 2018.

(with Ulrike Krause) (eds.): Gender, Violence, Refugees (Series on Forced Migration), Oxford: Berghan Publishers, 2017 (hardback), 2019 (paperback). https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785336164

(with Annika Björkdahl) (eds.): Spatializing Peace and Conflict. Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence (Series Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016 (hardback), 2019 (paperback).

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa) (eds.): After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice. Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016. (open access: www.nurembergacademy.org/resources/acceptance-online-platform/overview/)

(with Teresa Koloma Beck, Christian Braun and Friederike Mieth) (eds.): Transitional Justice Theories (Series Transitional Justice). Abington: Routledge, 2014 (hardback), 2015 (paperback).

(with Stefanie Schäfer) (eds.): Memorials in Times of Transition, Antwerp: Intersentia (Series on Transitional Justice Vol. 16), 2014. 

(with Thorsten Bonacker) (eds.): Transitions from Violence. Special Issue of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013. 

(with Ruth Stanley) (eds.): Gender in Transitional Justice, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 

(with Thomas Kater) (eds.): Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011. 

Monographs

(with Johanna Mannergren, Annika Björkdahl, Stefanie Kappler, and Timothy Williams): Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: University Press, 2024. (Open Access here)

Raum in den Internationalen Beziehungen. Springer essential, 2021.

Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda: Remembering after Violence (Series on Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Articles & Chapters

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. (2026). Memory and the Interpretation of Political Violence: Exploring the Politics of Memorial Aesthetics in Paris over Time. In T. Bonacker, C. Daase, J. J. Driedger, N. P. Lam Phương & J. Pfister (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence (pp. 315-31). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003635024 (Open Access)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Mina Ibrahim & Maria Hartmann. (2026). Expanding and Contesting Human Rights Discourses in Syrian Diaspora Communities. Universal Jurisdiction Cases against the Assad Regime in Germany. International Journal of Human Rights. (in print).

Ibrahim, Mina, Maria Hartmann & Susanne Buckley-Zistel. (2026). Intersecting Injustices: Diasporic (Dis-)Engagement in Syrian Justice Struggles. In T. Destrooper & E. Evrard (Eds.), Handbook of Victims Participation (pp. 209–221). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009671378.020

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. (2026). Memory and Justice in a Postcolonial World. Rewriting Peace and Conflict, 18 June 2026. https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2026/06/18/memory-and-justice/

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Jürgen Bast & Laura Holderied. (2026). Humanrightization of Migration Discourses: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 18(1), online first. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf044 (Open Access)

Avram, K. Andra, Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Alexandra Engelsdorfer. (2025). Challenging Peacebuilding from a Postcolonial Perspective. In S. Tripathi & S. Richter (Eds.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South (pp. 393–407). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9798881842390 (Open Access)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Kaya de Wolff, Astrid Erll, Sybille Frank, Nicolai Hannig, Sabine Mannitz, Mariel Reiss, Jona Schwerer, Sara-Luise Spittler & Monika Wingender (2024). Memory Before Violence. Frankfurt/Main: TraCe Working Paper No. 5. https://www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/DatenTrace/Publikationen/2024_12_05_Working_Paper_5_Memory_Before_Violence.pdf

Bast, Jürgen, Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Encarnacion, Hailbronner, Michaela, Knipper, Michale, Olson, Greta, von Harbou, Frederik, Wessels, Jana, Wiezorek, Christine, & Zifonun, Darius (2023). Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Eine Forschungsagenda. MeDiMi Working Paper No. 1. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-1771

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Teresa Koloma Beck (2022). Friedens- und Konfliktforschung | postkolonial. Einleitung. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZefKo), 11(2), 141-152. https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.uni-marburg.de/10.1007/s42597-023-00098-8 (Open Access)

Basil, Priya, Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Teresa Koloma Beck (2022). On remembering, unlearning, and creating new stories. Zeitschrift für Friedens und Konflforschung, 11(2), 229–241. https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.uni-marburg.de/10.1007/s42597-022-00084-6 (Open Access).

Björkdahl, Annika & Susanne Buckley-Zistel (2022). Introduction to Space for Peace. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(5), 536–544. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2022.2154025 (Open Access)

Björkdahl, Annika & Susanne Buckley-Zistel (2022). Space for Peace: A Research Agenda. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(5), 659–676. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2022.2131194 (Open Access)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2022). Raum und internationale Politik. In F. Sauer, L. von Hauff, & C. Masala (Eds.), Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen (pp. 1–18). Berlin: Springer.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2020). Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes. In R. Ouaissa, F. Pannewick, & A. Strohmaier (Eds.), Re-Configurations: Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 25–35). Cham: Springer.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2020). Memorials and Transitional Justice. In O. Richmond & G. Visoka (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2018). Hakikat Komisyonları, İnsan Hakları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Geçiş Dönemlerinde Normatif Değişimler. In N. Alıcı & G. Daşlı (Eds.), Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Barış (pp. 149–175). Ankara: Dipnot Press.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Stefanie Schäfer (2018). Memorials in Transitions: Kollektive Formen des Gedenkens. In A. Mihr, G. Pickel, & S. Pickels (Eds.), Handbuch Transitional Justice (pp. 45–62). Wiesbaden: Springer.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Patrick Rowanda (2018). Changing Patterns of Acceptance. International Criminal Justice after the Rwandan Genocide. In S. Buckley-Zistel, F. Mieth, & M. Papa (Eds.), In After Nuremberg: Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice (pp. 1–10). Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Friederike Mieth Friederike & Marjana Papa (2017). Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries: 10 Key Findings. In S. Buckley-Zistel, F. Mieth, & M. Papa (Eds.), In After Nuremberg: Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice (pp. 1–10). Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy. http://www.nurembergacademy.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Buckley-Zistel_Mieth_Papa_-_10_Key_Findings_Acceptance_of_ICJ.pdf

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Friederike Mieth & Marjana Papa (2017). How does acceptance contribute to prevention of atrocities? In 10 Years after the Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice: The Fight against Impunity at a Crossroad (pp. 29–31). Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy. https://www.nurembergacademy.org/fileadmin/media/pdf/events/Nuremberg_Forum_2017/Nuremberg_Forum_2017_Conference_Report.pdf

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Friederike Mieth & Marjana Papa (2016). Assessing the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries – a Methodology. In S. Buckley-Zistel, F. Mieth, & M. Papa (Eds.), In After Nuremberg: Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice (pp. 1–15). Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy. http://www.nurembergacademy.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Methodology.pdf

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2016). Normativität der Ambivalenz. In K. Dreit, N. Schumacher, & A. Abraham (Eds.), Ambivalenzen der Normativität in kritisch-feministischer Wissenschaft (pp. 153–156). Sulzbach: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2016). Truth en route: The Migration of Norms and Ideas. In M. Bockenförder, N. Krupke, & P. Michaelis (Eds.), A Multi-Disciplinary Mosaic: Reflections of Global Cooperation and Migration (pp. 38–40). Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Center for Global Cooperation Research, Global Dialogues 13.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2016). Zur Konstruktion von Wahrheit: Die Aufarbeitung von Menschenrechtsverbrechen durch Wahrheitskommissionen. In J. Brunner & D. Stahl (Eds.), Recht auf Wahrheit: Zur Genese eines neuen Menschenrechts (Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert, pp. 163–173). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2015). Relating Spaces: Transitional Justice between the Global and the Local. In N. Gal-Or & B. Schwelling (Eds.), Global Cooperation in Transitional Justice: Challenges, Possibilities and Limits (pp. 20–24). Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation, Global Dialogues 6.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2015). Vom Seminarraum ins Feld und zurück – Potentiale und Herausforderungen von Feldforschung im Studium. In M. Bös, L. Schmitt, & K. Zimmer (Eds.), Konflikte vermitteln? Lehren und Lernen in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (pp. 116–123). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2013). The Politics of the Present. In L. Stan & N. Nedelsky (Eds.), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (pp. 287–288). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2013). Vergangenes Unrecht aufarbeiten: Eine globale Perspektive. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 63(25), 31–36.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2013). Исправить несправедливость. Глобальная перспектива. Журнальный зал | Отечественные записки, 6(57). http://magazines.russ.ru/oz/2013/6/18b-pr.html

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2013). Redressing Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice and the Labelling of Women as ‘Victims’. In T. Bonacker & C. Safferling (Eds.), Victims in Transitional Justice (pp. 91–100). The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2012). „Ich bin dann mal weg“. Feldforschung im Studium der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 2(1), 130–138.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2012). „Wenn du Frieden willst, pflege die Gerechtigkeit“. Frieden und Gerechtigkeit nach gewaltsamen Konflikten und Diktaturen. Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1, 30–32.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Magdalena Zolkos (2011). Das Gender von Gerechtigkeit nach Krieg, Gewalt und Unterdrückung. Geschlechterdimensionen der Transitional Justice. In B. Engels & C. Gayer (Eds.), Geschlechterverhältnisse, Frieden und Konflikt (pp. 135–149). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Anika Oettler (2011). Was bedeutet Transitional Justice? In S. Buckley-Zistel & T. Kater (Eds.), Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression: Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit (pp. 21–38). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Thomas Kater (2011). Einleitung: Der schwierige Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. In S. Buckley-Zistel & T. Kater (Eds.), Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression: Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit (pp. 7–20). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2009). Globale Rechtsprechung, lokale Konflikte. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof als friedensstiftende Maßnahme in Uganda? In T. Bonacker, J. Free, M. Daxner, & C. Zürcher (Eds.), Zur Soziologie der Interventionsgesellschaften (pp. 101–118). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2009). Friede und Gerechtigkeit nach gewaltsamen Konflikten. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 8, 22–27.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2008). Transitional Justice als Weg zu Frieden und Sicherheit. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. SFB Governance Working Paper Series, No. 15. Berlin: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 700.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2007). Wahrheitskommissionen: Das Enthüllen der Vergangenheit als Weg zum Frieden? Wort und Antwort, 48(4), 81–85.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Berhard Moltmann (2006). Versöhnung: Gratwanderung zwischen Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit. In R. Mutz et al. (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2006 (pp. 168–176). Münster: LIT Verlag.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2005). Living in the Shadows of Genocide. Index on Censorship, 34(2), 43–47.

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2002). Weighing Up the Pros and Cons of NEPAD. CSDG Bulletin, No. 15. London: CSDG.

Working Papers

(with Jürgen Bast, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Michaela Hailbronner, Michael Knipper, Greta Olson, Frederik von Harbou, Janna Wessels, Christine Wiezorek,  and Dariuš Zifonun (2023) Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Eine Forschungsagenda, MeDiMi Working Paper Nr. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-17716.

How does acceptance contribute to prevention of atrocities? In: International Nuremberg Principles Academy (ed.): 10 Years after the Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice: The Fight against Impunity at a Crossroad, 2018, p. 29-31. 

(with Annika Björkdahl, Johanna Mannergren-Selimovic, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams): Memory Politics, Cultural Heritage and Peace. Introducing an Analytical Framework to Study Mnemonic Formations. Research Cluster on Peace, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Working Paper No 1, 2017. Link

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa): Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries. 10 Key Findings. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2017. Link

(with Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa): Assessing the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Situation Countries – a Methodology. In: Buckley-Zistel, Susanne/Mieth, Friederike/ Papa, Marjana (eds.): In After Nuremberg. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of International Criminal Justice, Nuremberg: International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016. Link

Transitional Justice als Weg zu Frieden und Sicherheit. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, SFB Governance Working Paper Series, Nr. 15, Berlin: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 700, 2008.

Between Past and Future. An Assessment of the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Forschung DSF No. 15, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF), 2008.

Demokratisierung, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (ed.), Innerstaatliche Konflikte (Dossierinhalt: Konzepte, Strategien und Tätigkeitsfelder der Bearbeitung innerstaatlicher Konflikte), bpb-Online-Dossier, Bonn: 2007.

Transitional Justice: Handreichung, Plattform Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung, 2007.

(with Bernard Tabaire): Preventing Violent Conflicts? UK Policy on Uganda, ISIS Policy Paper 87, London, March 2003.

Weighing Up the Pros and Cons of NEPAD, London: CSDG Bulletin No. 15, 2002.

Book Reviews

Grief as a Resource for Politics. A Review of Judith Butler, Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London/New York: Verso, 2004), Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006.

Review of Michael Howard: The Invention of Peace. In: Journal for Conflict, Security and Development (CSD), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002, pp. 168-171.

Review of Human Rights Watch: Hostile to Democracy. The Movement System and Political Representation in Uganda. In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2000, pp. 225-227.

Blogs & Podcasts

Women, Gender and Transitional Justice, FriEnt Blog, 2019. Link

(with Anne Menzel) Sexuelle Gewalt in Konflikten: Endlich soll wirksam gehandelt werden – nur wie?, DVPW Blog, 2019. Link

Frauen, Gender und Transitional Justice, PeaceLab Blog, 2018. Link

(with Timothy Williams): Exploring the Memory Kaleidoscope in Berlin, Peace & Memory Blog, 2018. Link

Of Other Spaces. Analysing Memorials to Mass Violence through Foucault’s Notion of Heterotopia. Oxford Transitional Justice Seminars, 2013. Link