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Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm � by both victims and perpetrators � must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion.

Truth commissions --- Truth commissions. --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Human rights

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Transitional justice. --- Truth commissions. --- Reparations for historical injustices. --- Collective memory.

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This is the first law book devoted entirely to the subject of truth commissions. The book sets forth standards of procedural fairness aimed at protecting the rights of those who come into contact with truth commissions - primarily victims and their families, witnesses, and perpetrators. The aim of the book is to provide recommended criteria of procedural fairness for five possible components of a truth commission's mandate: the taking of statements, the use of subpoenas, the exercise of powers of search and seizure, the holding of victim-centered public hearings, and the publication of findings of individual responsibility in a final report (sometimes called the issue of 'naming names'). The book draws on the experience of past and present truth commissions, analogous national and multilateral investigative bodies, and international and comparative standards of procedural fairness.

Human rights --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Truth commissions --- Academic collection --- Truth commissions. --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Law --- General and Others

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There seems to be a pervasive trend towards public apologies, forms of national introspection and appeals to grant forgiveness. Archbishop Tutu's motto that 'there is no future without forgiveness' is well known. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission has become an important model and source of inspiration for many other countries that want to deal with their past grievances and internal conflicts. This book discusses the role of forgiveness within processes of peace building and transitional justice. Does 'forgiveness' enable a public or political use of the term? Is it possible to forgive on behalf of others, and if so, under what conditions? These conceptual questions are related to reflections on the cultural and religious contexts of expressing forgiveness. Do forgiving words promote a willingness to look ahead and prevent a relapse into conflicting views on the poisonous past? Or do they bring along aversion? Maybe the 'push' towards forgiveness is experienced as highly unfair.

Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Human rights --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Justice

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Conflict management. --- Forgiveness. --- Interpersonal conflict. --- Psychic trauma. --- Psychotherapy. --- Reconciliation. --- Social conflict --- Truth commissions. --- Psychological aspects.