Confronting human rights abuses : approaches to transitional justice -- The nature and purpose of forgiveness -- The possibility and promise of political forgiveness -- Justice, reconciliation, and political forgiveness -- Retributive justice and the limits of forgiveness in Argentina -- The quest for reconciliation through truth telling in Chile -- Intractable politics without truth or forgiveness : the case of Northern Ireland -- The promise of reconciliation through truth and some forgiveness in South Africa -- Conclusion: Toward a theory of political forgiveness.