Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity
Author:   Priscilla B. Hayner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415924788


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 July 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity


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This book is a profound exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Hayner examines twenty major truth commissions established around the world paying special attention to South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala.

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Author:   Priscilla B. Hayner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780415924788


ISBN 10:   0415924782
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   04 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Confronting Past Crimes 3. Why a Truth Commission? 4. Five Illustrative Truth Commissions 5. Sixteen Less Prominent Commissions 6. What is Truth? 7. Truth vs. Justice 8. Naming the Guilty 9. Healing from the Past 10. An Eye to the Future 11. Reparations for State Crimes 12. Leaving the Past Alone 13. Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court 14. Inside the Commission 15. Challenges and Assistance From the Outside

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Priscilla B. Hayner co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice and served as program director and director of its Geneva office. She has advised truth commissions in well over a dozen countries, working with the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, and others, and has been featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Le Temps. She is currently writing on the subject of justice in peace negotiations.

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