Assessing the impact of transitional justice challenges for empirical research
As new forms of government replace repressive regimes, the perennial question arises: how to deal with the wrongdoers of the old regime? In the effort to heal and rebuild societies torn by violence, new governments and the international community have tried mechanisms ranging from criminal trials an...
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Washington, DC
United States Institute of Peace
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Policy implications of empirical research on transitional justice / Neil Fritz
- Cross-national comparative analysis / David Backer
- Truth finding in the transitional justice process / Audrey R. Chapman
- Delivering justice during transition : research challenges / Hugo van der Merwe
- Approaches to studying reconciliation / Audrey R. Chapman
- Taking stock of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : assessing citizen attitudes through surveys / James L. Gibson
- Survivor studies : the importance of evaluating the effects of truth commissions on survivors of human rights violations / Jeffrey Sonis
- Confessional performances : a methodological approach to studying perpetrators' testimonies / Leigh A. Payne
- Truth and transitional justice in South Africa / Janet Cherry
- Too deep, too threatening : understandings of reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Brandon Hamber and Gráinne Kelly
- Local histories : a methodology for understanding: community perspectives on transitional justice / Mathilde González
- Practical considerations in comparative research : approaching problems from the bottom and from within / Victor Espinosa Cuevas and María Luisa Ortiz Rojas
- Critical challenges for the development of the transitional justice research field / Victoria Baxter