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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Truth commission"”.
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Truth commission testimony : relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among South African survivors of human rights violations
The present study aimed to examine the degree to which giving TRC testimony is related to current psychiatric status and forgiveness attitudes among survivors of human rights abuses. A literature review examined the degree to which the TRC's claims are supported by the existing theoretical and …
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A new beginning: a case for establishing a sexual and gender-based violence truth commission in South Africa
… determine whether the novel approach of a SGBV truth commission (TC) would be an effective method to respond to and minimise the widespread femicide and SGBV violations in South Africa. This research project is a desktop thesis, drawing on existing literature in the transitional justice (TJ), …
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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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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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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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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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Post-conflict transition and development in Sierra Leone: a case for the transformative-justice model
… in Sierra Leone, namely an investigative truth commission and a legal tribunal referred to as the Special Court. After the completion of the mandates of these two instruments, many developmental gaps still existed in post-conflict Sierra Leonean society. This particularly applied to women …
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Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… dissertation aims to explore how, framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), different bodies took on disparate meanings that both affirmed and challenged the emergence of the euphemistically termed, 'New Nation'. Relying on insights from disability studies, postcolonial scholarship …
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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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From Yugoslavia to Sierra Leone: advantages and shortcomings of the ad-hoc tribunals and the hybrid courts
… and restorative justice with the model of a truth commission and how a society which has to deal with massive human rights violations can benefit from the ideas of restorative justice and the combined use of a hybrid court and a truth commission. I conclude the Mini thesis with an outlook of …
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The Narrative of the ‘new' South Africa: Bearing Witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its 20th Anniversary
… 60 years of the Freedom Charter and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) saw its 20th anniversary. This has gone relatively unacknowledged, eclipsed by socio-political and economic turmoil. A struggling economy, rising inequality, unemployment, ‘xenophobia' and democratic, …
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Children, youth and transitional justice in Northern Uganda
… justice, the option of establishing a truth commission, formal justice and reparations most prominently. Despite the strong involvement of children and youths in the conflict – as victims and perpetrators – their inclusion in, needs for and expectations of transitional justice have …
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Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law- a Nigerian case study
… function in transitional societies is the truth commission. The research proposes extending the purview of truth-telling processes as a measure of public accountability to the judiciary in post-authoritarian contexts. The research adopts a comparative perspective but to contextualise the …
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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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The plea agreements process in the International criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the light of the amnesty process in the Truth and Reconciliation commission in South Africa
… contributed to the process of establishing the truth about past abuses and to compare this with probably the most controversial aspect of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (TRC) -- granting of amnesty to the responsible for the atrocities during apartheid. Drawing on both …
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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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Memorias sueltas de la toma y retoma del palacio de justicia (Bogotá, Colombia) Recuerdos, versiones y percepciones de la tragedia
El presente trabajo explora la forma en que es recordada la toma y retoma del Palacio de Justicia, ocurrida entre los días 6 y 7 de noviembre de 1985 en Bogotá, cuando militantes del Movimiento 19 de abril, en adelante M19, asaltaron la sede de la alta corte para realizar un juicio público al …