Assessing the impact of transitional justice : challenges for empirical research / Transitional justice : challenges for empirical research edited by Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, Audrey R. Chapman. - Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009. - ix, 345 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Policy implications of empirical research on transitional justice / Cross-national comparative analysis / Truth finding in the transitional justice process / Delivering justice during transition : research challenges / Approaches to studying reconciliation / Taking stock of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : assessing citizen attitudes through surveys / Survivor studies : the importance of evaluating the effects of truth commissions on survivors of human rights violations / Confessional performances : a methodological approach to studying perpetrators' testimonies / Truth and transitional justice in South Africa / Too deep, too threatening : understandings of reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Local histories : a methodology for understanding: community perspectives on transitional justice / Practical considerations in comparative research : approaching problems from the bottom and from within / Critical challenges for the development of the transitional justice research field / Neil Fritz -- David Backer -- Audrey R. Chapman -- Hugo van der Merwe -- Audrey R. Chapman -- James L. Gibson -- Jeffrey Sonis -- Leigh A. Payne -- Janet Cherry -- Brandon Hamber and Gráinne Kelly -- Mathilde González -- Victor Espinosa Cuevas and María Luisa Ortiz Rojas -- Victoria Baxter.

9781601270368 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1601270364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Crimes against humanity.
Transitional justice.
Truth commissions.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Restorative justice.
Reconciliation--Political aspects.
Crimenes de la humanidad.
Justicia de transición.
Comiciones de la verdad
Las Reparaciones por las injusticias históricas

K 5301 / A846 2009

345.0235