Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice

by Van Der Merwe, Hugo

• ISBN13: 9781601270368
• ISBN10: 1601270364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr

Summary

In Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice, fourteen leading researchers study seventy countries that have suffered from autocratic rule, genocide, and protracted internal conflict, and gauge the effectiveness of various transitional justice mechanisms in wide-ranging sociocultural contexts. They use empirical research to make statistical comparisons among the bewildering array of factors that can affect the success or failure of transitional justice. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Hugo van der Merwe, transitional justice program manager at Cape Town's Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, is coeditor in chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. Victoria Baxter is deputy director of communications and public affairs at the United Nations Foundation and a former senior program associate at the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Audrey R. Chapman, Healey Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Connecticut Health Center, is the author of sixteen books, including Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (with Hugo van der Merwe).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Policy Implications of Empirical Research on Transitional Justice	p. 13
Cross-National Comparative Analysis	p. 23
Concepts
Truth Finding in the Transitional Justice Process	p. 91
Delivering Justice during Transition: Research Challenges	p. 115
Approaches to Studying Reconciliation	p. 143
Applications
Taking Stock of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Assessing Citizen Attitudes through Surveys	p. 173
Survivor Studies: The Importance of Evaluating the Effects of Truth Commissions on Survivors of Human Rights Violations	p. 191
Confessional Performances: A Methodological Approach to Studying Perpetrators' Testimonies	p. 227
Truth and Transitional Justice in South Africa	p. 249
Too Deep, Too Threatening: Understandings of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland	p. 265
Local Histories: A Methodology for Understanding: Community Perspectives on Transitional Justice	p. 295
Practical Considerations in Comparative Research: Approaching Problems from the Bottom and from Within	p. 313
Critical Challenges for the Development of the Transitional Justice Research Field	p. 325
Index	p. 335
About the Editors	p. 345
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