Truth and Consequences. / Jonathan D. Tepperman.
by Tepperman, Jonathan D; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 48Human Relations. Publisher: Foreign Affairs, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Human rights | Reconciliation | Truth commissions | Guatemala -- History | Guatemala -- Social conditions | South Africa -- History | South Africa -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The debate over military tribunals, international trials, and similar concerns arising from the Afghanistan campaign...has obscured what is perhaps the greatest recent innovation in post-transition justice: the rise of truth commissions....Despite their swelling popularity...almost everything about the truth commissions--including their missions, compositions, and outcomes--is now the subject of intense debate." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) The author examines the increased use of truth commissions and their positive and negative criticisms.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Truth and Consequences, March/April 2002; pp. 128-145.
"The debate over military tribunals, international trials, and similar concerns arising from the Afghanistan campaign...has obscured what is perhaps the greatest recent innovation in post-transition justice: the rise of truth commissions....Despite their swelling popularity...almost everything about the truth commissions--including their missions, compositions, and outcomes--is now the subject of intense debate." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) The author examines the increased use of truth commissions and their positive and negative criticisms.
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