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Truth commissions : memory, power, and legitimacy /
"Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Truth, power, and legitimation in truth commission processes. Definition and conceptual history of truth commissions: what are they? what have they become? ; Speaking truth to power? the politics of truth commissions ; One truth among others? truth commissions' struggle for truth and memory
- Zooming in: political and social change through truth commissions. Truth commission impact: an assessment of how commissions influence politics and society ; Explaining variation in truth commission impact (I): Chile and Peru ; Explaining variation in truth commission impact (II): evidence from thirteen countries ; Comparing truth commissions' memory narratives: Chile and Peru
- Zooming out: coming to terms with the past through truth commissions. Nation and (its new) narration: a critical reading of truth commissions.