Truth Commission
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A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government, in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. They are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established by President Nelson Mandela after apartheid, is generally considered a model of Truth Commissions, rarely if ever achieved in other parts. As government reports, they can provide proof against historical revisionism of state terrorism and other crimes and human rights abuses.
Joshua Micah Marshall has called for a truth and reconciliation commission about United States-sponsored torture in Iraq and elsewhere. [link]
List of truth and reconciliation commissions
- Argentina
- *National Commission for Forced Disappearances (Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas)
- Chile
- *National Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación; "Rettig Report")
- *National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture ("Valech Report")
- El Salvador
- *United Nations Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) [link]
- Fiji
- *Reconciliation and Unity Commission
- Guatemala
- *Historical Clarification Commission (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico)
- Liberia
- *Truth and Reconciliation Commission see [link]
- Morocco
- *Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER).
- Panama
- *Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad)
- Peru
- *Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación)
- South Africa
- *Truth and Reconciliation Commission After the transition from apartheid, President Nelson Mandela authorized a truth commission to study the effects of apartheid in that country. [link]
- Sierra Leone
- *Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Timor-Leste (East Timor)
- *Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação em Timor Leste)
- United States
- *Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC)
See also
- The German policy of Vergangenheitsbewältigung is commonly compared to truth and reconciliation
External links
- [Truth Commissions Digital Collection] (United States Institute of Peace)
- [Truth Commission]
- [International Center of Transitional Justice]
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