List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose? -- 2 Where and When in Political Life is Justice Served by Forgiveness? -- 3 Politics and Forgiveness -- 4 The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues -- 5 Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions -- 6 National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 7 Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process -- 8 Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence -- 9 Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy -- 10 War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala -- 11 Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 12 Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition -- 13 Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11 -- Index