Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. I. Truth Commissions And The Provision Of Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation 1
5. II. The Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions 22
6. III. Restoring Decency to Barbaric Societies 45
7. IV Moral Ambition Within and Beyond Political Constraints: Reflections on Restorative Justice 68
8. V. Truth Commissions, Transitional Justice, and Civil Society 99
9. VI. The Moral Foundations of the South African TRC: Truth as Acknowledgment and Justice as Recognition 122
10. VII. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Third Way 141
11. VIII. The Uses of Truth Commissions: Lessons for the World 158
12. IX. Amnesty, Truth, and Reconciliation: Reflections on the South African Amnesty Process 170
13. X. Amnesty’s Justice 189
14. XI. Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees: The Elusive Search for Norms of Due Process 211
15. XII. The Hope for Healing:What Can Truth Commissions Do? 235
16. XIII. Doing History, Doing Justice: The Narrative of the Historian and of the Truth Commission 261
17. XIV. Constructing a Report: Writing Up the “Truth” 279
18. The Contributors 295
19. Index 299