Audrey R. Chapman

Audrey R. Chapman serves as the director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is the former director of the Program of Dialogue for Ethics for AAAS. She works closely with the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

Reverend Bernard Spong is a native of the United Kingdom who came to South Africa as a missionary in 1963. In show more 1977 he began a media training organization working alongside the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and in 1991 became the communications director of the SACC for the years of negotiation and transition in South Africa. show less

Contents 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 show more 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. show less