Collaboration in Authoritarian and Armed Conflict Settings

Juan Espindola is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was trained as a political theorist at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on violence, and transitional justice. He is the author of Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and his work has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Bioethics, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Theory and Research in Education, German Studies Review, Res Publica, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Social Philosophy, and others.


Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. She has written extensively on right-wing movements, transitional justice, and human rights. She is author of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Duke University Press, 2008) and co-author of Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever (Cambridge University Press, 2020 with Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal-Bermúdez).