International organizations (IOs) dispatch fact-finding missions to establish epistemic
authority by objectively and impartially assessing contested facts. Despite this technocratic …

This review surveys the philosophical underpinnings, conceptual frames, and
methodological choices informing the scholarship on truth commission impact to examine …

This article shows that for post-revolutionary Tunisia, a holistic approach to transitional
justice–which aims to address a wide range of justice issues through a combination of …

This article presents and tests an original theory that truth commissions (TCs) inspire
democratic behaviors, but have little discernible impact on democratic institutions. Using …

Transitional justice in process is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian
transitional justice process. After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began …

What accounts for the creation, design, and outputs of quasi-judicial institutions in
autocracies? Prior research demonstrates that autocrats co-opt electoral, legislative, and …

Despite growing scholarly attention to normative and institutional influences promoting
international accountability, limited attention has been paid to the transformative role of …

Environmental harm in Chile takes place in an economic, political, legal, and social context
of extractivism. A multiscale process, extractivism involves the mobilisation of a significant …

This article examines how civil society organisations are able to shape the politics of
knowledge production of truth commissions (TCs). The article argues that their capacity …

We know little about the processes surrounding the formulation and implementation of truth
commission recommendations (TCRs). This article introduces the Beyond Words database …