LEADER 05278nam 2200733 450 001 9910797967103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9192-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291926 035 $a(CKB)3710000000553639 035 $a(EBL)4321855 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001590106 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16284083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590106 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13429877 035 $a(PQKB)11201165 035 $a(OCoLC)933515808 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46630 035 $a(DE-B1597)452743 035 $a(OCoLC)952806969 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321855 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149343 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL878075 035 $a(OCoLC)932049768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321855 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000553639 100 $a20160210h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTruth commissions $ememory, power, and legitimacy /$fOnur Bakiner 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 225 1 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4762-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Truth, Power, and Legitimation in Truth Commission Processes --$tIntroduction to Part I --$tChapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? --$tChapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions --$tChapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory --$tPart II. Zooming In: Political and Social Change Through Truth Commissions --$tIntroduction to Part II --$tChapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society --$tChapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru --$tChapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries --$tChapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru --$tPart III. Zooming Out: Coming to Terms with the Past Through Truth Commissions --$tIntroduction to Part III --$tChapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSince the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy.Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to rethink the violence and exclusion of nation building, and produced a new dynamic whereby the state seeks to legitimize its central position between history and politics by accepting a high degree of societal penetration into the production and diffusion of official national history. By doing so, truth commissions have challenged and transformed public discourses on memory, truth, justice, reconciliation, recognition, nationalism, and political legitimacy in the contemporary world. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aTruth commissions$xPolitical aspects$vCase studies 606 $aPolitical crimes and offenses$xInvestigation$vCase studies 606 $aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects$vCase studies 606 $aMemory$xPolitical aspects$vCase studies 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aPolitical Science. 615 0$aTruth commissions$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitical crimes and offenses$xInvestigation 615 0$aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMemory$xPolitical aspects 676 $a323.4/9 700 $aBakiner$b Onur$01531564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797967103321 996 $aTruth commissions$93777343 997 $aUNINA