Truth v. justice : the morality of truth commissions
The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scie
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Truth commissions and the provision of truth, justice, and reconciliation / Robert I. Rotberg
The moral foundations of truth commissions / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson
Restoring decency to barbaric societies / Rajeev Bhargava
Moral ambition within and beyond political constraints: reflections on restorative justice / Elizabeth Kiss
Truth commissions, transitional justice, and civil society / David A. Crocker
The moral foundations of the South African TRC: truth as acknowledgment and justice as recognition / André du Toit
Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: the third way / Alex Boraine
The uses of truth commissions: lessons for the world / Dumisa B. Ntsebeza
Amnesty, truth, and reconciliation: reflections on the South African amnesty process / Ronald C. Slye
Amnesty's justice / Kent Greenawalt
Trials, commissions, and investigating committees: the elusive search for norms of due process / Sanford Levinson
The hope for healing: what can truth commissions do? / Martha Minow
Doing history, doing justice: the narrative of the historian and of the truth commission / Charles S. Maier
Constructing a report: writing up the "truth" / Charles Villa-Vicencio and Wilhelm Verwoerd