Grassroots activism and the evolution of transitional justice : the families of the disappeared Introduction Methodological and theoretical innovations in the use of databases in transitional justice The daughters of Antigone in Latin America: Argentinian mothers Forensic cascade: the technologies and institutions of truth The missing tale of human rights Institutionalized silences for the missing in Lebanon Cyprus: the bright side of a frozen conflict Truth commissions and the missing: TRCs unfinished business Poetic justice: the Chilean desaparecidos Conclusions: five lessons for transitional justice