Truth v. Justice : The Morality of Truth Commissions /

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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 cr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bhargava, Rajeev (Contribuidor), Boraine, Alex (Contribuidor), Crocker, David A. (Contribuidor), Greenawalt, Kent (Contribuidor), Gutmann, Amy (Contribuidor), Kiss, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Levinson, Sanford (Contribuidor), Maier, Charles S. (Contribuidor), Minow, Martha (Contribuidor), Ntsebeza, Dumisa B. (Contribuidor), Rotberg, Robert I. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Slye, Ronald C. (Contribuidor), Thompson, Dennis F. (Editor ), Thompson, Dennis (Contribuidor), Toit, André Du (Contribuidor), Verwoerd, Wilhelm (Contribuidor), Villa-Vicencio, Charles (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Edición:Core Textbook
Colección:The University Center for Human Values Series ; 36
Temas:
Amnesty > South Africa.
Amnesty.
Apartheid > South Africa.
Human rights > South Africa.
Human rights.
Reconciliation.
Truth commissions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Truth Commissions And The Provision Of Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation
  • II. The Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions
  • III. Restoring Decency to Barbaric Societies
  • IV Moral Ambition Within and Beyond Political Constraints: Reflections on Restorative Justice
  • V. Truth Commissions, Transitional Justice, and Civil Society
  • VI. The Moral Foundations of the South African TRC: Truth as Acknowledgment and Justice as Recognition
  • VII. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Third Way
  • VIII. The Uses of Truth Commissions: Lessons for the World
  • IX. Amnesty, Truth, and Reconciliation: Reflections on the South African Amnesty Process
  • X. Amnesty's Justice
  • XI. Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees: The Elusive Search for Norms of Due Process
  • XII. The Hope for Healing:What Can Truth Commissions Do?
  • XIII. Doing History, Doing Justice: The Narrative of the Historian and of the Truth Commission
  • XIV. Constructing a Report: Writing Up the "Truth"
  • The Contributors
  • Index

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