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African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice

Author : John Perry
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498504086
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice written by John Perry and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice examines the functioning of truth commissions in Africa, outlining the lessons learned, the best practices, and the successes and failures of seven African truth commissions. Its introduction and conclusion then work further to place truth commissions within the growing academic field of transitional justice. The first African truth commission was convened by the despot Idi Amin for reasons unrelated to the defense of human rights, but despite this ambiguous beginning, other African truth commissions have done important work. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996 has become the ‘gold standard’ for future truth commissions not only in Africa, but throughout the world: it unearthed much truth about the Apartheid era abuse of human rights and took vital first steps towards restorative justice in the Republic. Each truth commission is distinctive. However, although much has been written about South Africa’s truth commissions, much less is known about the other six studied in this book—and an attentive reader will notice the suggestive patterns which emerge.

Performing South Africa's Truth Commission

Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353904
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Performing South Africa's Truth Commission written by Catherine M. Cole and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.

The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on

Author : Mia Swart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339566
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on written by Mia Swart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.

Pieces of the Puzzle

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 0958479453
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Pieces of the Puzzle written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2004 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconciliation - Ubuntu - Peace processes - Reparation - Restorative justice - Amnesty - Memory - Testimony - Transitional justice - Genocide - The international criminal court - Truth commissions - Traditional and customary law - Human rights - Rights and reconciliation - Economic transformation - National truth commissions - Online resources on transitional.

Truth v. Justice

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832039
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Truth v. Justice written by Robert I. Rotberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and activists representing several perspectives look at the process of truth commissioning in general and in post-apartheid South Africa. They ask whether the truth commission, as a method of seeking justice after conflict, is fair, moral, and effective in bringing about reconciliation. The authors weigh the virtues and failings of truth commissions, especially the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in their attempt to provide restorative rather than retributive justice. They examine, among other issues, the use of reparations as social policy and the granting of amnesty in exchange for testimony. Most of the contributors praise South Africa's decision to trade due process for the kinds of truth that permit closure. But they are skeptical that such revelations produce reconciliation, particularly in societies that remain divided after a compromise peace with no single victor, as in El Salvador. Ultimately, though, they find the truth commission to be a worthy if imperfect instrument for societies seeking to say "never again" with confidence. At a time when truth commissions have been proposed for Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, East Timor, Cambodia, Nigeria, Palestine, and elsewhere, the authors' conclusion that restorative justice provides positive gains could not be more important. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amy Gutmann, Rajeev Bhargava, Elizabeth Kiss, David A. Crocker, André du Toit, Alex Boraine, Dumisa Ntsebeza, Lisa Kois, Ronald C. Slye, Kent Greenawalt, Sanford Levinson, Martha Minow, Charles S. Maier, Charles Villa-Vicencio, and Wilhelm Verwoerd.

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

Author : Hugo van der Merwe
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812240597
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa written by Hugo van der Merwe and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the truth commissions to date, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has most effectively captured public attention throughout the world and provided the model for succeeding bodies. Although other truth commissions had preceded its establishment, the TRC had a far more expansive mandate: to go beyond truth-finding to promote national unity and reconciliation, to facilitate the granting of amnesty to those who made full factual disclosure, to restore the human and civil dignity of victims by providing them an opportunity to tell their own stories, and to make recommendations to the president on measures to prevent future human rights violations.

The Era of Transitional Justice

Author : Paul Gready
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136902201
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Era of Transitional Justice written by Paul Gready and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Era of Transitional Justice

Author : Paul Gready
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136902198
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Era of Transitional Justice written by Paul Gready and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Unspeakable Truths 2e

Author : Priscilla B. Hayner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135245584
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable Truths 2e written by Priscilla B. Hayner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and offering detailed charts that assess the impact of truth commissions and provide comparative information not previously available. Placing the increasing number of truth commissions within the broader expansion in transitional justice, Unspeakable Truths surveys key developments and new thinking in reparations, international justice, healing from trauma, and other areas. The book challenges many widely-held assumptions, based on hundreds of interviews and a sweeping review of the literature. This book will help to define how these issues are addressed in the future.

Staging Solidarity

Author : Tanya Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251482
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Staging Solidarity written by Tanya Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum. Rather than simply serving as data for setting the historical record straight, this book shows that it was not only the content of these testimonies but also how these stories were told and what values were attached to them that became significant. Goodman argues that the performative nature of the TRC process effectively designated the past as profane and simultaneously imagined a sacred future community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.

Narrating Political Reconciliation

Author : Claire Moon
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739140451
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Political Reconciliation written by Claire Moon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating Political Reconciliation advances a distinctive discourse analysis of South Africa's reconciliation process by enquiring into the politics of the following: writing national history, confessional, and testimonial styles of truth, and reconciliation as theology and therapy. Moon argues that the TRC was the catalyst for, and shaped the parameters of, what is now powerful 'reconciliation industry, ' and her insights provide a theoretical framework through which to think and problematise the politics of transitional justice in post-conflict and democratizing states more generally

From Apartheid to Democracy

Author : Katherine Elizabeth Mack
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271065729
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book From Apartheid to Democracy written by Katherine Elizabeth Mack and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.

Truth Commissions and State Building

Author : Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228019648
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Truth Commissions and State Building written by Bonny Ibhawoh and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just an opportunity to uncover fact after conflict, truth commissions can also offer restorative power to nations across the globe. Truth Commissions and State Building presents the first comparative study of the role of its kind, illuminating these possibilities. Examining truth commissions as mechanisms for civic inclusion, identity formation, institutional reform, and nation (re)building in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies, the book shifts attention towards institutional innovation in African countries, where approximately a third of all commissions have been established. Contributors explore the mandates, methods, outcomes, and legacies of truth commissions, analyzing their place in transitional and restorative justice. Rather than conceptualizing state building as incidental to their work, they present it as an intrinsic, central component. This flagship volume – authored by a stellar cast of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars – brings multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives to bear on the complex role of truth commissions in addressing transitional justice, historical injustices, and present-day human rights violations. As more countries, in both the Global South and the North, adopt this model to address historical and contemporary abuses, the dialogue between different sectors of society modelled here will help inform this process – wherever it might occur.

Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement

Author : Jamie Rowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108764
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement written by Jamie Rowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are promoted and created. By exploring how the movement developed, as well as efforts to create truth commissions in the Balkans, Colombia, and the US, it examines the processes through which political actors translate transitional justice into political action.

Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies

Author : Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135189714
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies written by Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the increasing frequency of truth commissions, there has been little agreement as to their long-term impact on a state's political and social development. This book uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice. Providing the first cross-national analysis of the impact of truth commissions and presenting detailed analytical case studies on South Africa, El Salvador, Chile, and Uganda, author Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm examines how truth commission investigations and their final reports have shaped the respective societies. The author demonstrates that in the longer term, truth commissions have often had appreciable effects on human rights, but more limited impact in terms of democratic development. The book concludes by considering how future research can build upon these findings to provide policymakers with strong recommendations on whether and how a truth commission is likely to help fragile post-conflict societies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Transition Justice, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Studies, Democratization Studies, International Law and International Relations.

Unspeakable Truths

Author : Priscilla B. Hayner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415924788
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable Truths written by Priscilla B. Hayner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and offering detailed charts that assess the impact of truth commissions and provide comparative information not previously available. Placing the increasing number of truth commissions within the broader expansion in transitional justice, Unspeakable Truths surveys key developments and new thinking in reparations, international justice, healing from trauma, and other areas. The book challenges many widely-held assumptions, based on hundreds of interviews and a sweeping review of the literature. This book will help to define how these issues are addressed in the future.

Theorizing Transitional Justice

Author : Claudio Corradetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010868
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Transitional Justice written by Claudio Corradetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice. With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The chapters also take up normative and political considerations pertaining to specific transitional instruments such as war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions. Bringing together some of the most original writings from established experts as well as from promising young scholars in the field, the collection will be an essential resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology.