Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions

ISBN-13: 9780415872027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 376 str.

Priscilla B. Hayner

Opis

This volume is an exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Case studies include South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Confronting Past Crimes: Transitional Justice and the Phenomenon of Truth Commissions  3. Why a Truth Commission?  4. The Five Strongest Truth Commissions  5. Other Illustrative Truth Commissions  6. What is the Truth?  7. The Truth About Women and Men  8. Truth and Justice: A Careful but Critical Relationship  9. Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court  10. Naming Names of Perpetrators  11. Healing from the Past  12. Truth and Reparations  13. Reconciliation and Reforms  14. Leaving the Past Alone  15. When, How, and Who: Basic Questions of Methodology and Operations  16. Reflections: Looking Forward

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Priscilla B. Hayner was a co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice and served as program director and director of its Geneva office. She has assisted truth commissions in well over a dozen countries, working with the United Nations, the Ford Foundation and others, and has been featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Le Temps. She is currently writing on the subject of justice in peace negotiations.