The politics of left-wing militants' confessions to past violence in Latin America

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Leigh A Payne is professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College. Her academic research focuses on human rights, particularly legacies of authoritarian rule and armed conflict. She has published books, articles, and chapters on transitional justice. Her co-authored book Transitional Justice in Balance was recently translated into Spanish. Her new area of transitional justice work focuses on accountability for economic actors in past human rights violations. Her Unsettling Accounts book analyzes perpetrators’ confessions to violence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and South Africa. Her co-authored 2016 book, Revealing New Truths about Spain’s Violent Past, extends that analysis to Spain. She is also developing a new book project tentatively titled Left Unsettled on left-wing perpetrators’ confessions to violence.