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The implementation record of truth commissions’ recommendations in Latin America
Book Chapter | Jan 2019
The implementation record of truth commissions’ recommendations in Latin America Elin Skaar The Glob
truth commissions, Latin America
Human rights in Latin American
News | 31 Mar 2014
CMI has received funding for one new project on Latin American democratisation and peace processes and one project on abortion rights lawfare.
Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions' Recommendations
Project | Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
Over the past three decades, over 40 countries have established truth commissions (TCs) to investigate past patterns of gross human rights violations ...
Latin America, truth commissions, recommendations, impact assessment, democratization, accountability, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Equador, Panama, Colombia, Haiti
Transitional Justice for Human Rights: The Legacy and Future of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Book Chapter | Mar 2018
Truth commissions are an integral component of transitional justice, that is, formal and informal mechanisms set up by the state or civil society to address ...
Truth commission, Transitional justice, Human rights, Peace, Democracy, Reconciliation, Impact, Latin America
Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Historical Perspective ( Abingdon, Routledge, 2015) 258pp
Book Review | Nov 2018
Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconcilia
Chile, truth commission, transitional justice
Truth in transition. The role of truth commissions in political transitions in Chile and El Salvador
CMI Report | Jan 1999
Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period of authoritarian ...
Democratization, Authoritarianism, Chile, El Salvador, Americas: Chile
Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC deliver? ed. Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe; Narrating political reconciliation: South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission, Claire Moon
Book Review | Feb 2009
Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC deliver? ed. Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van d
Human rights, transitional justice, truth commissions, reconciliation, South Africa
Skaar Elin
Research Professor
Political scientist exploring intersections between law and politics in Latin America and Africa
Democratisation, human rights, transitional justice, courts, judicial reform, comparative politics, institutional development, Americas: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay., Africa: Namibia, Angola, Mozambique
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an International Model
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an International Model Siri Gloppen Writing R
Reconciliation, Justice, Truth commissions, Africa: South Africa
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic Transitions
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic Transitions Elin Skaar Writin
Democracy, Human rights
Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Report in External Series | Nov 2007
This report assesses the aid that was given in support of transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala between 1995 and 2005. The analysis is ...
transitional justice, criminal courts, truth commissions, traditional justice mechanisms, reparations, security sector reform, aid, peacebuilding, development, Rwanda, Guatemala
Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami and the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority in Norway (TRUCOM)
Project | Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
This project will study how Norway - a well-established democratic welfare state - attempts to settle the negative effects of long-lasting policies of ...
Transitional justice, Indigenous peoples, Human rights
Truth commissions, trials - or nothing? Policy options in democratic transitions
Journal Article | Jan 1999
Gross human rights violations have constituted a hotly contested national issue in many recent transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. This article ...
Building a better world by establishing a Truth Commission: Incomplete healing in El Salvador
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2018
On 17 October 1992, as a consultant to the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, I visited the village of Corinto to collect stories of ‘grave ...
El Salvador
Reconciliation and democratisation: Outlining the research field
CMI Report | Jan 2002
The report presents an overview of institutional strategies to deal with the problem of past atrocities - trials, purges, truth commissions, restorative ...
Sør-Afrikas sannhetskommisjon: et internasjonalt ideal?
Journal Article | Mar 2009
Sør-Afrikas sannhetskommisjon: et internasjonalt ideal? Siri Gloppen FN-magasinet Truth commission
Truth commissions, South Africa
Ending child marriages: Not only a question of law
News | 4 May 2016
The new Marriage Act in Malawi has been hailed for raising the legally prescribed age of marriage to 18, yet the truth is that there is no absolute minimum age of marriage in Malawi and that legal inconsistencies threaten the enforcement of the law.
Malawi
Special Issue: "Drivers of Justice"
Edited Book | Jun 2013
The main objective of this volume is to provide a better understanding of the political, judicial and social forces driving the establishment and operation ...
human rights, transitional justice, drivers of justice, trials, truth commissions, speical tribunals, amnesty, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Sudan
New Direction in the Development Cooperation with Africa?
Event | 23 Mar 2010
The Danish Africa Commission recommends a refocused agenda for international development cooperation with Africa. Lars Engberg-Pedersen discusses the main recommendations from the report, then a panel with Kjell Harald Dalen from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and researchers from CMI debates new directions in the development cooperation with Africa.
Reconciliation in a Transitional Justice Perspective
Journal Article | Sep 2012
Reconciliation is one of the most contested concepts in the scholarly debate on transitional justice, and arguably also the most difficult to measure ...
transitional justice, truth, justice, reconciliation, impact assessment