Assessing the impact of transitional justice : challenges for empirical research
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Assessing the impact of transitional justice : challenges for empirical research
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009
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Transitional justice : challenges for empirical research
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 and financial restitution to public denunciation to more symbolic measures such as truth commissions. The results have been mixed. But out of the often failed transitional justice processes of the past, a body of empirical research is emerging that can provide, if not prescriptive answers, at least better questions. In "Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice", fourteen leading researchers study seventy countries that have suffered from autocratic rule, genocide, and protracted internal conflict. The authors gauge the effectiveness of various transitional justice mechanisms in wide-ranging sociocultural contexts. In a dramatic departure from the typically discursive, anecdotal literature, they use empirical research to make statistical comparisons among the bewildering array of factors that can affect the success or failure of transitional justice.
Their findings will prove vitally important for policymakers, legal advocates, and anyone else faced with the daunting task of implementing or monitoring restorative justice processes.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, Audrey R. Chapman Policy Implications of Empirical Research on Transitional Justice - Neil Kritz Cross-National Comparative Analysis - David Backer Truth Finding in the Transitional Justice Process - Audrey R. Chapman Delivering Justice during Transition - Hugo van der Merwe Approaches to Studying Reconciliation - Audrey R. Chapman Taking Stock in South Africa: Assessing Citizen Attitudes through Surveys - Jim Gibson Survivor Studies - Jeffrey Sonis Confessional Performances - Leigh Payne Truth and Transitional Justice in South Africa - Janet Cherry Understandings of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland - Brandon Hamber and Grainne Kelly A Methodology for Understanding the Community Perspectives - Matilde Gonzales Practical Considerations in Comparative Research - Victor Espinoza Cuevas and Maria Luisa Ortiz Rojas Critical Challenges - Victoria Baxter
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