Leading on from the constructive engagement of a previous similar event, this workshop will again draw on this breadth and empirical richness to further develop scholarly critique by identifying new research questions and perspectives for a prolonged interdisciplinary engagement among scholars based in Warwick and scholars both nationally and internationally. Recognising the need for a ‘thicker’ version of transitional justice that extends beyond a ‘thin’ legalistic conception of the phenomenon, it will provide an innovative interdisciplinary insight into the challenges that emotions pose for transitional justice processes such as truth recovery, reconciliation initiatives, disarmament, demobilisation & reintegration (DDR) and amnesty processes. Looking at the real world effect of emotions in transitioning societies, this workshop aims to contextualise the matter through fuller evaluation of their role in social, economic and political development that lies beyond the confines of legal processes and the courtroom.