Introduction
PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES
Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are
They? What Have They Become?
Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions
Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth
and Memory
PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS
Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions
Influence Politics and Society
Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and
Peru
Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence
from Thirteen Countries
Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru
PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH
COMMISSIONS
Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth
Commissions
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
