University of Maryland
TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. WORKING THROUGH THE PAST IN CHILE AND ROMANIA
Abstract
dc:description.abstractTruth 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 them essentially deliberative is that the commissioners and the staff constantly makes choices when they define such basic objectives as truth, reconciliation, justice and memory and decide how those objectives should be met and whose needs should be served. Inevitably, there will be winners and losers in a truth commission process. Thus, assessing the conditions under which truth commissions are likely to emerge is vitally important in order to understand how truth commissions are capable of influencing policy.
Degree
thesis:*- Department dc:contributor.department
- Government and Politics
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2019
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Garcia, Andres
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Tismaneanu, Vladimir
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.13016/lbli-4wad
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:drum.lib.umd.edu:1903/22116