​This ebook intends to give a contribution to the starting to be physique of transitional justice literature through delivering perception into how fact commissions can be necessary to sufferers of mass violence, in response to info accrued in Timor-Leste and at the Solomon Islands. Drawing on literature within the fields of sufferer psychology, procedural justice, and transitional justice, this examine is guided by means of the puzzle of why truth-telling in post-conflict settings has been came across to be both beneficial and damaging to sufferers of mass violence. current stories have pointed out a number of confident advantages and damaging outcomes of truth-telling for sufferers; even if, the explanations why a few sufferers event a feeling of therapeutic whereas others don't after partaking in post-conflict fact fee procedures maintains to stay uncertain. consequently, to deal with one piece of this complicated puzzle, this booklet seeks to start clarifying how truth-telling might be important for sufferers through investigating the query: What pathways lead from truth-telling to sufferer therapeutic in post-conflict settings? construction at the proposition that having voice—a key portion of procedural justice—can aid participants to beat the disempowerment and marginalisation of victimisation, this ebook investigates voice­ as a  causal mechanism which could create pathways towards therapeutic inside fact fee public hearings.   Comparative, empirical reviews that examine how truth-telling contributes to sufferer therapeutic in post-conflict settings are scarce within the box of transitional justice. This ebook starts to fill an incredible hole within the current physique of literature. From a realistic point of view, by way of bettering figuring out of the way fact commissions can advertise therapeutic, the findings and arguments during this volume provide perception into how the layout of transitional justice approaches might be better sooner or later to raised reply to the desires of sufferers of mass violence.