Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy

by Onur Bakiner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247620
• ISBN13: 9780812247626
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"