Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice

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.

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).