Provide an overview and analysis of Hayner’s perception of ‘truth’
2. Briefly outline Hayner’s position in the truth vs. justice debate ?
3. the relationship between truth commissions and the prospects for justice?
Country 1: Argentina Country 2: South Africa
Truth vs. justice balance
Truth vs. justice balance
Make notes on the following points based on Unspeakable Truths (1st edition: Chapter 10 or 2nd edition: chapter 13):
4. What reconciliation might ‘look like’
5 The factors which ‘encourage reconciliation’?
A Summary Evaluation of the [Argentina] Truth Commission
Transitional Justice: conceptual perspectives Truth Commissions: practical perspectives
a. Human Rights • List of gross and serious human rights violations covered by the commission
b. Power
Who are the abusers and how is the abuse carried out?
• Brief overview of power relations before truth commission
How was power exercised vertically, i.e. between state and society/victims?
And horizontally, i.e. between citizens?
What was extent of public support for the state/government?
c. Impunity
1. What factors support the abusers?
2. How can they be held accountable?
• Summary assessment of the culture of impunity before truth commission
To what extent were violations backed by the laws, courts, armed-forces or other institutions?
• and after the truth commission
Were there amnesties or other processes put in place, during the process of negotiating transition?
And, were the ‘guilty’ named?
d. Memory and testimony
How can they be recorded; and with what evidence, and what aim?
• Summary detail on methodology and operational choices of truth commission
e. Reconciliation
(How) can divided societies become whole again?
• Detail on other specific interesting features of truth commission and their impact
f. Analysis and critical evaluation
• Summary analysis of (a) to (e) above
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