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9780415553223

Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies: The Impact on Human Rights and Democracy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415553223

  • ISBN10:

    0415553229

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2010-01-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm is a consultant on issues ranging from the politics of post-conflict justice and reconstruction to labour and employment law and welfare state politics. He has previously taught at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and worked with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Diaspora Project.

Table of Contents

List of tablesp. xi
Prefacep. xii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiv
Truth-seeking as an article of faithp. 1
An inconvenient truthp. 3
Uncovering the truth: theorizing truth commission expectationsp. 22
Experiments in truthp. 33
South Africa's paradigmatic Truth and Reconciliation Commissionp. 35
Chile's persistent pastp. 52
Truth and peacebuilding in El Salvadorp. 80
Historical oblivion in Ugandap. 104
Truth commissions in cross-national contextp. 127
Truth commissions, human rights, and democracy around the worldp. 129
The promise and pitfalls of truth commissionsp. 143
The consequences of truthp. 145
Appendix: countries in the statistical modelsp. 163
Notesp. 165
Bibliographyp. 198
Indexp. 217
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