Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Confronting Past Crimes
3 Why a Truth Commission?
4 Five Illustrative Truth Commissions
5 Sixteen Less-Prominent Commissions
6 What is the Truth?
7 Truth Versus Justice: Is it a Trade-Off?
8 Naming the Guilty
9 Healing from the Past
10 An Eye to the Future: Reconciliation and Reforms
11 Reparations for State Crimes
12 Leaving the Past Alone
13 Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court: Conflict or Complement?
14 Inside the Commission: Problems and Practicalities
15 Challenges and Assistance from the Outside
Epilogue: Looking Forward
Afterword: An Expanding Universe of Official Truth-Seeking
Notes
Frequently Cited Sources
Appendix 1
Chart 1 Twenty-one Truth Commisions
Chart 2 "Historical" Truth Commissions
Chart 3 Alternative Forms of Official or Semi-Official Inquiry into the Past
Chart 4 What Rights Violations do Truth Commissions Cover?
Chart 5 Past Truth Commission Recommendations
Chart 6 Reparations from Truth Commissions: A Comparision of Chilean and Argentine Benefits for Victims
Chart 7 A Comparision of Resources and Responsibilities
Chart 8 What Works Best?
Appendix 2 Interviews by the Author
Index