Abstract : This article considers some of the main features of so-called truth and reconciliation commissions
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Abstract : This article considers some of the main features of so-called truth and reconciliation commissions their history and structure and their characteristic concerns with respect to their central dilemmas including how they grapple with notions of truth justice liability reconciliation apology and forgiveness and how they address the need to support the "reconstruction" of selves and identities in the wake of massive trauma and collective violence. A particular concern is with how such commissions or related tribunals engender what can be called a "one-to-many" dynamic in which they try to effect social reconciliation while focusing attention via testimony and story-telling on the traumas and suffering of individual victims.
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