Methods of Human Rights Research, eds. Fons Coomans, Fred Grunfeld and Menno T. Kamminga. * Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy, Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter.

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges facing researchers and practitioners working in transitional justice is the urgent need to create an evidentiary foundation that justifies and facilitates decision making in policy and practice. The two books reviewed here provide methodological tools and a groundbreaking empirical analysis of multiple combinations of transitional justice mechanisms across regions, countries and time periods.