The global impact and legacy of truth commissions / edited by Jeremy Sarkin.
2019
K3240 .G5632 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The global impact and legacy of truth commissions / edited by Jeremy Sarkin.
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Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Intersentia Ltd, [2019]
Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series
Series on transitional justice ; v. 24.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: contextualising and understanding the global role, impact and legacy of truth commissions / Jeremy Sarkin
Is anyone listening? A review of the research on attitudes towards truth commissions / Filipa Raimundo and Joana Rebelo Morais
Assessing the long-term impact and legacy of truth commissions / Anita Ferrara
The global textual legacies of truth commissions: narratives on sexual violence in the reports of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya and beyond / Susanne Vuckley-Zistel
The implementation record of truth commissions' recommendations in Latin America / Elin Skaar
In the aftermath of truth: implementing truth commissions' recommendations on reparations - following through for victims / Luke Moffett
Truth commissions and social justice: 'wishful thinking or not very thoughtful wishing'? / Brianne McGinugke Leyh
Transitioning toward dignity / Erin Daly
Towards an understanding of how truth commissions can use their amnesty powers to enhance their impact and legacy / Jeremy Sarkin
Truth commissions in non-transitional contexts: implications for their impact and legacy / Eric Wiiebelhaus-Brahm
Surrogacy and resistance: evolving patterns in unofficial truth commissions and truth projects / Pádraig McAuliffe
Is anyone listening? A review of the research on attitudes towards truth commissions / Filipa Raimundo and Joana Rebelo Morais
Assessing the long-term impact and legacy of truth commissions / Anita Ferrara
The global textual legacies of truth commissions: narratives on sexual violence in the reports of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya and beyond / Susanne Vuckley-Zistel
The implementation record of truth commissions' recommendations in Latin America / Elin Skaar
In the aftermath of truth: implementing truth commissions' recommendations on reparations - following through for victims / Luke Moffett
Truth commissions and social justice: 'wishful thinking or not very thoughtful wishing'? / Brianne McGinugke Leyh
Transitioning toward dignity / Erin Daly
Towards an understanding of how truth commissions can use their amnesty powers to enhance their impact and legacy / Jeremy Sarkin
Truth commissions in non-transitional contexts: implications for their impact and legacy / Eric Wiiebelhaus-Brahm
Surrogacy and resistance: evolving patterns in unofficial truth commissions and truth projects / Pádraig McAuliffe
Summary
The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions' emerges at a time when there is a confluence of two trends. The first is a growing critique of truth commissions as being unresponsive to the socio-economic needs of transitional societies as part of growing criticism of transitional justice as a whole. The second is the increasing use, salience, professionalism and ambition of truth commissions. Thus, the book is published at a time when truth commissions are being both doubted and reified like never before. In this context, the book's purpose is to understand the impact and legacy of these institutions over the past fifty years. Bringing together many prominent voices on the topic, this book investigates what kind of impact and legacy (possibly up to 100 of such bodies depending on how they are defined) truth commissions have had on the societies in which they have taken place, and for future truth commissions the world over.
Note
The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions' emerges at a time when there is a confluence of two trends. The first is a growing critique of truth commissions as being unresponsive to the socio-economic needs of transitional societies as part of growing criticism of transitional justice as a whole. The second is the increasing use, salience, professionalism and ambition of truth commissions. Thus, the book is published at a time when truth commissions are being both doubted and reified like never before. In this context, the book's purpose is to understand the impact and legacy of these institutions over the past fifty years. Bringing together many prominent voices on the topic, this book investigates what kind of impact and legacy (possibly up to 100 of such bodies depending on how they are defined) truth commissions have had on the societies in which they have taken place, and for future truth commissions the world over.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
K3240 .G5632 2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781780687940
178068794X
178068794X
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