Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions

When grievous harm happens, a rebalancing is bound to occur, whether it is orderly and lawful or disorderly and unlawful. Shattered Voices contends that language is requisite to any adequate balancing, and that a solution is viable only if it provides an atmosphere in which storytelling and subsequent dialogue can flourish. Shattered Voices offers an important and thoughtful analysis of the efficacy of the ways human rights abuses are addressed.