Assessing the impact of transitional justice : challenges for empirical research / edited by Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, Audrey R. Chapman.

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.