While these normative dimensions relating to the promotion of liberal democratic values continue to influence transitional justice discourses, it is also clear that the selfsame discourses increasingly analyse and debate justice processes in cases that are fundamentally different from the type of cases around which the field was formed. For example, debates about transitional justice now occur in Kenya, Uganda, Colombia, Sudan and many other countries that have not (yet?) experienced a fundamental political transition and/ or where large-scale human rights abuses are still ongoing. In other cases, such as Rwanda, a fundamental political transition has indeed taken place when a transitional justice process is launched, but this transition is not best understood using terms such as ‘liberalizing’. Transitional justice discourses thus increasingly engage with contexts where there is no liberalizing political transition, including illiberal transitions and transitions which seem predominantly to concern an already existing or attempted move from armed conflict, usually of some internal nature, to relative peace.