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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Truth Commissions"”.
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The Post-Conflict Reconciliation Process; Truth Commissions
… been achieved through criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparation programs, and vetting, a truth commission, in particular, has been progressively used in the past decade as one aspect of transitional justice measures. This increase in use illustrates its popularity in handling …
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How do Truth Commissions try to reconcile a divided Nation?
Este análisis comparativo examina las metodologías y resultados de las Comisiones de la Verdad en dos contextos distintos: La Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación en Sudáfrica (TRC) y la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición en Colombia (CEV). La …
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TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. WORKING THROUGH THE PAST IN CHILE AND ROMANIA
Truth commissions are an active deliberative process. Outgoing and incoming politicians, government and opposition parties, victim’s groups, civil society, human rights organizations, the judiciary, and the media participate in truth commission processes to achieve multiple objectives. What makes …
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Televising truth commissions: the interaction between television, perpetrators, and political transition in South Africa
… perpetrators in television broadcast coverage of truth commissions within politically transitioning societies, particularly how these discourses may influence the perceptions and experience of transition out of conflict. It focuses on the narratives constructed around apartheid-era perpetrators …
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Truth, trauma and memory a critical analysis of truth commissions with specific reference to Liberia
… XIII of the CPA outlines the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Accordingly, the Commission was mandated to provide a forum that will address issues of impunity, as well as an opportunity for both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations to share their …
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Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?
… amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into …
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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
… and feasibility of human rights tribunals and truth commissions are dependent upon the ways in which the past is narrativized in State-sponsored legal reports and subsequently promulgated through the stories we tell. Juxtaposing three historical cases that have constituted transitional justice …
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Justice in Action: Assessing the Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice
… of transitional justice (e.g. tribunals, truth commissions, and amnesty laws) have on future human rights abuses and democratization processes. However, this literature fails to differentiate between having a policy on the books and having a policy which is actually implemented. My project …
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Truth in the time of tumult: tracing the role of official 'truth-seeking' commissions of inquiry in South Africa, from Sharpeville to Marikana
… it had additional distinctive aims to achieve 'truth, restoration, and justice', which are functions traditionally associated with Truth Commissions, in the field of Transitional Justice, and more particularly with South Africa's TRC. This ambiguity in the Marikana Commission's function points …
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Truth and reconciliation at the grassroots : community truth processes in the Southern United States
Truth commissions are implemented in order to "deal with the past" in the context of a transition in government from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the center of a truth commission is a truth process that attempts to establish the experience of gross human rights abuse at the hands of the …
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South African obligation under international law to prosecute and punish perpetrators of gross human rights violations and to provide compensation for victims
… alternative mechanisms and procedures like truth commissions and other non-penal measures. This is, so to speak, the middle course between the two extremes of general amnesties and criminal prosecutions. Numerous truth commissions have been set up so far in countries as different as …
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'Is little to be gained by lamenting the past?' : Assessing the extent to which addressing the past legacy of the South African and Kenyan judiciaries by means of transitional justice mechanisms, has contributed to achieving the objectives of judicia
… that both the transitional justice mechanisms of truth commissions and judicial vetting contributed to achieving objectives of judicial reform in South Africa and Kenya. However, the extent of the contributions differed in each case because of unique political factors. It is concluded that …
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Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
… for recognition, justice and healing, and more truth commissions are recommending memorialization as a tool for post-conflict rebuilding. Despite this growth in the field, there is limited understanding of the actual impact that memorialization has in social rebuilding.</p> <p>Using a case study …
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Remedy for corporate human rights abuses in transitional justice contexts
… In transitional justice contexts, the trials, truth commissions, and reparations typically included within the set of remedy mechanisms have focused primarily on abuses by state authorities’ or by non-state actors directly connected to the state, such as paramilitary groups or death squads. …
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Forced displacement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, international law and transitional justice
… looks into the possibility of designing truth commissions to heal the pains caused by the Nakba. This thesis aims at defining the parameters of a transitional justice approach in relation to displacement in Palestine/ Israel. It does so by attempting to employ a transitional justice …
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Redressing Social Inequality through Transitional Justice
… civil and political rights, and trials and truth commissions, the traditional conception of transitional justice is ill-equipped both conceptually and practically to address issues of structural violence. Instead, a conception of transitional justice motivated by social or distributive …
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Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide
… Justice mechanisms (e.g., criminal tribunals, truth commissions, public apologies, pardons, lustration, memorialization, reparations, and constitutional conventions) can assist in furthering environmental aims (i.e., promoting ecological sustainability, preservation, and restoration).</p>
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Aid or Abuse? A Review of U.S. Police Assistance Programs in Latin America During the Early Cold War
… throughout Latin America. Several Latin American Truth Commissions claimed the OPS’s work contributed to some of the most heinous human rights violations committed in South and Central America during the Cold War.</p> <p>This thesis asks a series of questions. What was the OPS and what did it do …
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Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Legitimacy in Postcolonial States
… largely outside constitutional law—through truth commissions, reparations, and memory projects—often leaving the constitutional order’s authorizing premises intact. Yet these approaches explain constitutional survival and reform more effectively than they explain constitutional redemption: …
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