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When civil wars or intrastate conflicts end, and dictatorships, military juntas, or other repressive authoritarian regimes are defeated by humanitarian-minded victors, creating a truth commission is one way for society and individuals to deal with the atrocities of the recent past. Because truth commissions vary in their philosophies, missions, compositions, procedures, results, and successes, the World Peace Foundation and the Human Rights Program of the Harvard Law School gathered a panel to study and discuss these and other issues concerning the relevance and efficacy of truth commissions. This report is an edited transcript of their meeting.
About the Author
Henry J. Steiner is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Director of the Law School Human Rights Program at Harvard University. He is also chair of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Prof. Steiner has participated in conferences and given lectures on human rights in over 20 countries. He has written on a wide range of human rights topics, including political participation, ethnic minority regimes, the discourse of human rights, and human rights institutions.
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The cause of the Irish problem, suggested William Gladstone, is that the Irish never forget, while the English never remember. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, Tina Rosenberg, Lawrence Weschler, Charles Maier, Robert Rotberg, Henry Steiner, Kanan Makiya, Yael Tamir, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, World War, Fateh Azzam, Latin America, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Bryan Hehir, East Germany New!
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The cause of the Irish problem, suggested William Gladstone, is that the Irish never forget, while the English never remember. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
truth commission, moral reconstruction, criminal regimes, human rights movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Tina Rosenberg, Lawrence Weschler, Charles Maier, Robert Rotberg, Henry Steiner, Kanan Makiya, Yael Tamir, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, World War, Fateh Azzam, Latin America, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Bryan Hehir, East Germany New!
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- Democratic Transitions in Central America by JORGE I. DOMINGUEZ in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera on page 12, and Back Matter
- A Miracle, A Universe by Lawrence Weschler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Lawrence Weschler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals by Henry Steiner in Back Matter
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- Truth v. Justice by Robert I. Rotberg on 4 pages
- Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies (The RIREC Project on Post-Accord Peace Building) (RIREC Project Post-Accord Peace Bldg) by Tristan Anne Borer on page 53, page 55, and Back Matter
- Frontiers of Diversity: Explorations in Contemporary Pluralism (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 18) (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries) by Avery Plaw on page 186, and page 190
- Dilemmas of Justice in Eastern Europe's Democratic Transitions by Noel Calhoun in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing by Margaret Urban Walker on page 172, and Back Matter
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