Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies: The Impact on Human Rights and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415553223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str.

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm

Opis

The author uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice and features cross-national case studies on South Africa, El Salvador, Chile and Uganda.

Spis treści

Part 1: Truth-Seeking as an Article of Faith  1. An Inconvenient Truth  2. Theorizing Truth Commission Expectations  Part 2: Experiments in Truth  3. South Africa’s Paradigmatic Truth and Reconciliation Commission  4. Chile’s Persistent Past  5. Truth and Peacebuilding in El Salvador  6. Historical Oblivion in Uganda  Part 3: Truth Commissions in Cross-National Context  7. Truth Commissions, Human Rights, and Democracy Around the World  Part 4: The Promise and Pitfalls of Truth Commissions  8. The Consequences of Truth

O autorze

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm is a consultant on issues ranging from the politics of post-conflict justice and reconstruction to labour and employment law and welfare state politics. He has previously taught at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas and worked with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Diaspora Project.