Assess students' ability to critically evaluate the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms—truth commissions, criminal trials, and reparations—in achieving reconciliation and preventing recurrence of mass violence through a comparative case-study analysis of South Africa (TRC), Rwanda (Gacaca and ICTR), and Sierra Leone (TRC and Special Court). Responses should use evidence-based criteria (truth-seeking, accountability, reparative justice, institutional reform, public legitimacy, and long-term stability), synthesize cross-case similarities and differences, and demonstrate methodological awareness of indicators and sources.