The Resource Truth commissions : memory, power, and legitimacy, Onur Bakiner, (electronic resource)
Truth commissions : memory, power, and legitimacy, Onur Bakiner, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy. Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to rethink the violence and exclusion of nation building, and produced a new dynamic whereby the state seeks to legitimize its central position between history and politics by accepting a high degree of societal penetration into the production and diffusion of official national history. By doing so, truth commissions have challenged and transformed public discourses on memory, truth, justice, reconciliation, recognition, nationalism, and political legitimacy in the contemporary world.--
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- eng
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- Introduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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- 9780812247626
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- Truth commissions : memory, power, and legitimacy
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- Truth commissions
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- memory, power, and legitimacy
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- Onur Bakiner
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy. Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to rethink the violence and exclusion of nation building, and produced a new dynamic whereby the state seeks to legitimize its central position between history and politics by accepting a high degree of societal penetration into the production and diffusion of official national history. By doing so, truth commissions have challenged and transformed public discourses on memory, truth, justice, reconciliation, recognition, nationalism, and political legitimacy in the contemporary world.--
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- Truth commissions
- Political crimes and offenses
- Reconciliation
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- Introduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- Truth commissions : memory, power, and legitimacy, Onur Bakiner, (electronic resource)
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- Introduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
- Control code
- ybp12295102
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9780812247626
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)933515808
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