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\"This book examines a series of cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order\"-- Provided by publisher.

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy. Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to rethink the violence and exclusion of nation building, and produced a new dynamic whereby the state seeks to legitimize its central position between history and politics by accepting a high degree of societal penetration into the production and diffusion of official national history. By doing so, truth commissions have challenged and transformed public discourses on memory, truth, justice, reconciliation, recognition, nationalism, and political legitimacy in the contemporary world.

\"This book is the first to study the over-time effect of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process on people's attitudes towards peace. Focusing on the Solomon Islands TRC process\"-- Provided by publisher.

This book examines what makes accountability for previous abuses more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the  other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options, from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country.

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. * Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice * Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed  * Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence * Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation

What accounts for the creation, design, and outputs of quasi-judicial institutions in autocracies? Prior research demonstrates that autocrats co-opt electoral, legislative, and judicial institutions to curtail opponents' power and curry international patrons' favor. However, scholarship on co-optation neglects quasi-judicial mechanisms, such as truth commissions, that can be useful for arranging a political narrative that bolsters a leader's image while undermining his rivals. In this article, we formalize the concept of autocratic truth commissions-which account for one-third of truth commissions globally-and develop and test a novel theory of their origins, inputs, and outputs. We theorize that autocrats establish self-investigating commissions in response to threats to their symbolic authority and install rival-investigating commissions in response to threats to both symbolic authority and regime survival. We further argue that these two commission types take on different institutional forms and produce different outputs. Self-investigating commissions are afforded narrow mandates and produce reports that obscure basic facts. Meanwhile, rival-investigating commissions are granted wide mandates and culminate in accurate reports of rivals' responsibility for abuses. We evaluate these expectations through comparative case studies of two autocratic truth commissions in Uganda, and find support.

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as \"refugees,\" preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of \"survival migration\" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa-Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia-Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. InSurvival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.

This empirical study examines the potential and the obstacles of transitional justice in addressing the denial of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar (also known as Burma). It utilizes a qualitative research approach, drawing on relevant scholarship of truth-seeking as a transitional justice mechanism, criminology and international law. Empirical data were collected through in-depth interviews with victims of the Rohingya community and key informants in two separate stages between 2022 and 2023. This study presents an interdisciplinary approach to assess the role of a truth commission – a truth-seeking tool – in confronting Myanmar’s denial of this crime. It suggests that examining amnesties, as well as disarmament, reintegration and rehabilitation programmes for the individual perpetrators within the framework of a truth commission can provide a more nuanced discourse of addressing the decades-long denial of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Este estudio empírico examina el potencial y los obstáculos de la justicia transicional para abordar la negación del genocidio rohingya en Myanmar (también conocido como Birmania). Utiliza un enfoque de investigación cualitativa, basándose en estudios relevantes sobre la búsqueda de la verdad como mecanismo de justicia transicional, la criminología y el derecho internacional. Se recopilaron datos empíricos a través de entrevistas en profundidad con víctimas de la comunidad rohingya e informantes clave en dos etapas separadas entre 2022 y 2023. Este estudio presenta un enfoque interdisciplinario para evaluar el papel de la comisión de la verdad, una herramienta de búsqueda de la verdad, para enfrentar la crisis de Myanmar y la negación de este crimen. Sugiere que examinar las amnistías, así como los programas de desarme, reintegración y rehabilitación para los perpetradores individuales en el marco de una comisión de la verdad, puede proporcionar discursos más matizados para abordar la negación durante décadas del genocidio rohingya en Myanmar. Cette étude empirique examine le potentiel et les obstacles de la justice transitionnelle dans la lutte contre le déni du génocide des Rohingyas au Myanmar (également connu sous le nom de Birmanie). Il utilise une approche de recherche qualitative, s’appuyant sur des connaissances pertinentes en matière de recherche de la vérité en tant que mécanisme de justice transitionnelle, de criminologie et de droit international. Des données empiriques ont été collectées au cours d’entretiens approfondis avec des victimes de la communauté Rohingya et des informateurs clés au cours de deux étapes distinctes entre 2022 et 2023. Cette étude présente une approche interdisciplinaire pour évaluer le rôle de la Commission Vérité – un outil de recherche de la vérité – face aux problèmes du Myanmar. la négation de ce crime. Il suggère que l’examen des amnisties, ainsi que des programmes de désarmement, de réintégration et de réhabilitation pour les auteurs individuels dans le cadre d’une commission vérité, peut fournir un discours plus nuancé sur le déni du génocide des Rohingyas au Myanmar qui dure depuis des décennies. 这项实证研究探讨了过渡时期司法在打击否认缅甸罗辛亚种族灭绝的行为方面的潜力和障碍。它采用定性研究方法，利用寻求真相的相关知识作为过渡司法、犯罪学和国际法的机制。经验数据是通过在 2022 年至 2023 年的两个不同阶段对罗辛亚社区受害者和关键知情人进行深入访谈而收集的。这项研究提出了一种跨学科方法来评估真相委员会（一个寻求真相的工具)在缅甸面临的问题上的作用。问题。否认这一罪行。它表明，作为真相委员会的一部分，审查大赦以及针对个别肇事者的解除武装、重返社会和康复计划，可以为否认缅甸已持续数十年的罗辛亚种族灭绝提供更细致的叙述。 للروهينجا في ميانمار ( المعروفة أيضًا باسم بورما ). ويستخدم نهج البحث النوعي، بالاعتماد على المعرفة ذات الصلة في البحث عن الحقيقة كآلية للعدالة الانتقالية وعلم الجريمة والقانون الدولي. تم جمع البيانات التجريبية من خلال مقابلات متعمقة مع الضحايا من مجتمع الروهينجا والمخبرين الرئيسيين خلال مرحلتين منفصلتين بين عامي 2022 و 2023. وتقدم هذه الدراسة نهجًا متعدد التخصصات لتقييم دور لجنة الحقيقة - أداة للبحث عن الحقيقة - في مواجهة ميانمار. مشاكل. إنكار هذه الجريمة. ويشير التقرير إلى أن دراسة حالات العفو، وكذلك برامج نزع السلاح وإعادة الإدماج وإعادة التأهيل للجناة الأفراد كجزء من لجنة الحقيقة، يمكن أن توفر رواية أكثر دقة حول إنكار الإبادة الجماعية للروهينجا في ميانمار والتي استمرت لعقود من الزمن.

Truth Commissions seek to address issues of human rights violations that occurred during conflict or political violence. The Human Rights Investigation Commission (Oputa Panel) led the transitional justice process in Nigeria after it had transitioned from military rule to democratic rule in 1999. Like other Commissions of its kind, it expressed claims that the truth-seeking process would benefit the victims of human rights violations. This study examined the Commission and its contribution towards meeting the needs of those most affected by human rights violations during military rule. The study sought to evaluate the success or otherwise of this Commission's operations by focusing on the extent to which victims benefitted from the process. The case study research design was adopted, and in-depth semi-structured interviews were used to elicit responses from relevant stakeholders among the population of the study. The study is qualitative in nature and data gathered were analysed textually and arranged, using themes relevant to the subject matter. This study found that the Oputa Panel was not an effective instrument of victim-centred justice primarily because the reliefs victims received were largely limited. The participation of victims in the process did not translate into compensation or other forms of empowerment for victims. The study recommended that there must be a demonstration of the political will to implement the recommendations of truth commissions established in Africa. The victim-centred approach investigated here offers useful insights into the challenges faced by victims of human rights violations experienced in post-military regimes in Africa.

This article intends to explore how the production of collective memory within transitional justice processes could be considered as a feasible avenue to advance the instrumentalization of the Access to Remedy Pillar of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This account considers that collective memory is a fundamental component of transitional justice as the attainment of both victims reparation and national reconciliation require the emergence of a shared historical narrative that fixes an explanation as to the implications of violence on the trajectory of the affected society. Hence the current Colombian transitional justice project, and particularly certain social dialogue activities conducted by its Truth Commission (hereafter the Commission), are presented as an embryonic and non-exhaustive case study that serves as the starting point of further research on the matter.