TY - BOOK AU - Van der Merwe,Hugo AU - Baxter,Victoria AU - Chapman,Audrey R. TI - Assessing the impact of transitional justice: challenges for empirical research SN - 9781601270368 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - K 5301 A846 2009 U1 - 345.0235 PY - 2009/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - United States Institute of Peace Press KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Reparations for historical injustices KW - Restorative justice KW - Reconciliation KW - Political aspects KW - Crimenes de la humanidad KW - Justicia de transición KW - Comiciones de la verdad KW - Las Reparaciones por las injusticias históricas N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -