The implementation record of truth commissions’ recommendations in Latin America Elin Skaar The Glob

CMI has received funding for one new project on Latin American democratisation and peace processes and one project on abortion rights lawfare.

Over the past three decades, over 40 countries have established truth commissions (TCs) to investigate past patterns of gross human rights violations ...

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 ...

Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconcilia

Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period of authoritarian ...

Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC deliver? ed. Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van d

Political scientist exploring intersections between law and politics in Latin America and Africa

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an International Model Siri Gloppen Writing R

Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic Transitions Elin Skaar Writin

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 ...

This project will study how Norway - a well-established democratic welfare state - attempts to settle the negative effects of long-lasting policies of ...

Gross human rights violations have constituted a hotly contested national issue in many recent transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. This article ...

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 ...

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? Siri Gloppen FN-magasinet Truth commission

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.

The main objective of this volume is to provide a better understanding of the political, judicial and social forces driving the establishment and operation ...

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 is one of the most contested concepts in the scholarly debate on transitional justice, and arguably also the most difficult to measure ...