Gender Justice in Cambodia

Post-conflict societies undergo significant transitions, often accompanied by international interventions (e.g. transitional justice). These interventions bring both international actors and norms into sovereign national spaces, triggering dynamic norm changes and negotiations. The book presents a theory-driven approach to understanding the complex interactions between local and global norms. It aims to make norm translation, localization, and change processes transparent. The case study illustrates how global gender norms were localized, leading to the prosecution of forced marriage at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia. It also highlights how legal activism and transnational advocacy drive this localization process, introducing hybrid courts as norm catalysts. Finally, the book offers a nuanced understanding of norm negotiations in transnational justice politics.