Prof. Dr. Adam Kochanski

As a TraCe Visi­ting Fellow, I will con­tinue my re­search on how local norms, ideas and solutions circu­late in world poli­tics. 

My research focu­ses on transi­tional justice, post-conflict peace­building, inter­national norm dyna­mics, memory poli­tics, and inter­national criminal law and courts. I have ex­plored these themes through two re­search projects: (1) through the research pro­ject “Framing Atro­city: The Politics of Local Transitional Justice”, fun­ded by the Social Sciences and Hu­manities Research Coun­cil of Ca­nada (SSHRC), I have traced how domi­nant atrocity narra­tives shape and de­limit local truth-telling and memory prac­tices in Cam­bodia and Mozam­bique, and (2) through the SSHRC-funded research pro­ject “Norm Circu­lation in South­east Asia: How Local Ideas and Solu­tions Travel On”, I am ana­lyzing how local actors ac­tively adapt and trans­late global norms into local prac­tice to support ci­vilian self-protection in South Thailand and tran­sitional justice efforts in Cam­bodia, recircu­lating their own solu­tions to these di­lemmas.

Re­search Area Insti­tutions: 2.3. Contain­ment of New Violent Ac­tors