[TimorLesteStudies] New article: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Problems in Transitional Justice and the Reconstruction of Identity

[Bu Wilson]

 Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Problems in Transitional Justice  and the Reconstruction of Identity
  Kevin Avruch 
  George Mason University, kavruch at gmu.edu<!--  var u = "kavruch", d = "gmu.edu"; document.getElementById("em0").innerHTML = '<a href="mailto:' + u + '@' + d + '">' + u + '@' + d + '<\/a>'//-->                 

     This article considers some of the main features of so-called truth  and reconciliation commissions, their history and structure and  their characteristic concerns with respect to their central dilemmas,  including: how they grapple with notions of truth, justice,  liability, reconciliation, apology and forgiveness, and how  they address the need to support the "reconstruction" of  selves and identities in the wake of massive trauma and collective violence.  A particular concern is with how such commissions or related  tribunals engender what can be called a "one-to-many" dynamic,  in which they try to effect social reconciliation while focusing  attention, via testimony and story-telling, on the traumas  and suffering of individual victims. 

    

Key Words: apology • conflict resolution •  identity • truth & reconciliation commissions • violence

  		 	 	 	 	 	      	 	  	 	 	                   	 	 	 	 	     

         
Transcultural  Psychiatry, Vol. 47, No. 1, 	33-49 (2010)
 	DOI: 10.1177/1363461510362043
  
http://tps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/47/1/33

Bu V.E. Wilson
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