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Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity. By Priscilla B. Hayner. New York, London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii, 340. Index. $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Steven R. Ratner
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 95 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 994 - 997
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 See infra note 4.

2 Priscilla, Hayner, Fifteen Truth Commissions—1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study, 16 Hum. Rts.Q. 597 (1994)Google Scholar.

3 See, e.g., Ruti, Teitel, Transitional Justice (2000)Google Scholar; Truth V. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (Robert, I. Rotberg & Dennis, Thompson eds., 2000)Google Scholar; Martha, Minnow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998)Google Scholar; Transitional Justice (3 vols., Neil, J. Kriiz ed., 1995)Google Scholar. Teitel’s wonderful conceptual work is an especially nice counterpart to Hayner’s more empirical volume.

4 Hayner, Alexander Boraine (former deputy chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)), and Paul van Zyl (a lawyer and former senior staff member of the TRC) have recently established an NGO, the International Center for Transitional Justice, which includes such advice in its mandate. The center is based in New York and maintains a Web site at <http://www.ictj.org>.

5 See Thomas, Risse & Kathryn, Sikkink, The Socialization of International Human Rights Norms into Domestic Practices: Introduction, in The Power of Human Rights: Internattonal Norms and Domestic Change 1 (Thomas, Risse, Stephen, C. Ropp, & Kathryn, Sikkink eds., 1999)Google Scholar.