Unspeakable truths : transitional justice and the challenge of truth commissions / Priscilla B. Hayner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayner, Priscilla B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth commissions.

Human rights.

Political atrocities.

Political persecution.

Amnesty.

Reconciliation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 356 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and offering detailed charts that assess the impact of truth commissions and provide comparative information not previously available. Placing the increasing number of truth commissions within the broader expansion in transitional justice, Unspeakable Truths surveys key developments and new thinking in reparations, international justice, healing from trauma, and other areas. The book challenges many widely-held assumptions, based on hundreds of interviews and a sweeping review of the literature. This book will help to define how these issues are addressed in the future.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Confronting Past Crimes: Transitional Justice and the Phenomenon of Truth Commissions

3. Why a Truth Commission?

4. The Five Strongest Truth Commissions

5. Other Illustrative Truth Commissions

6. What Is the Truth?

7. The Truth about Women and Men

8. Truth and Justice: A Careful but Critical Relationship

9. Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court

10. Naming Names of Perpetrators

11. Healing from the Past

12. Truth and Reparations

13. Reconciliation and Reforms

14. Leaving the Past Alone

15. When, How, and Who: Basic Questions of Methodology and Operations

16. Reflections: Looking Forward

Appendix 1: Other Truth Commissions Described

Appendix 2: Charts.

Notes:

"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010"--copyright page.

Previous edition: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-24557-6

1-135-24558-4

1-282-88640-1

9786612886409

0-203-86782-3

9780203867822

OCLC:

671811324

Publisher Number:

9786612886409