‘donor-driven project’ (Oomen 2005). The resistance to ‘top-down’ transitional justice has led segments of the scholarship to call for local-level and participatory approaches to transitional justice. Accordingly, consultation and involvement of civil society and local communities are emerging as benchmarks for the legitimacy of transitional justice processes (Lundy and McGovern 2008). The critique of transitional justice as a project that externalizes justice from those affected by it has thus produced increased interest for modes of transitional justice that (supposedly) draw on local communities’ understandings of justice, often with reference to ‘tradition’ (Huyse 2008).