Abstract: My research is a journey into the heart of feminist methodologies and ethics in the pursuit of alternative justice addressing state and social violence against migrants. At the core of my inquiry lies an exploration of the methodological and ethical intricacies that shape transnational and translocal practices of accountability, focusing on public hearings, specifically on witness preparation and safety, and the transformative impact of these hearings on broader social justice movements. In this work I trace these principles through the lens of the 2015 Women’s Court—an emblematic regional model for justice in a time when impunity for war crimes and grave human rights violations in post-Yugoslav spaces still looms large. This work is a pedagogical offering, a guide in-the-making to those who co-travel alongside me in the creation of the Transbalkan Tribunal for Justice—an emerging force inspired by local, decolonial, and transnational feminist praxis, striving to build a future of migration and social justice.

Keywords: feminist accountability, feminist ethics and care, people’s tribunal, collective listening, resistance pedagogy, Transbalkan Tribunal for Justice