Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice.

Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice

Hugo Van Der Merwe

United States Institute of Peace Press

1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

9781601270368, $24.95, www.usip.org

Human rights are a horrible thing to violate, but they so often are. "Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice: Challenges for Empirical Research" is an exploration of the justice that is administered when tyrannical regimes and governments are deposed, and the new government is charged with punishing the old for their crimes against the people. Using well over seventy case studies, "Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice" tells the tale of very different methods of dealing with them, and discusses the effectiveness of each. "Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice" is intriguing and highly recommended for anyone trying to understand what's the best thing to do with tyrants.