Abstract
Questions about the relationship between transitional justice and development invoke impassioned arguments. While some question how any notion of justice can ignore concerns about the economic roots of conflict, others worry that if transitional justice starts to mean too much, it will come to mean nothing at all. Yet the case that transitional justice and development relate to and can enrich each other no longer needs to be made. Both fields have grown and expanded over the past two decades to the point that the question is not so much whether there is overlap, but rather how this overlap should be analysed through research and addressed in practice. This chapter reviews the definition and scope of transitional justice and the main approaches used to articulate its relationship to development. For practitioners in particular, it argues, the need to articulate transparent strategies for how transitional justice relates to development is essential.