Truth commissions

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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
ועדות אמת
Name (Latin)
Truth commissions
Other forms of name
Commissions, Truth
Reconciliation commissions
See Also From tracing topical name
Governmental investigations
Human rights
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q1501336
Library of congress: sh2001002255
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 00391126: Gairdner, D. Truth in transition, c1999.
  • PAIS on 1stsearch, Dec. 12, 1999
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Wikipedia description:

A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses. In both their truth-seeking and reconciling functions, truth commissions have political implications: they "constantly make choices when they define such basic objectives as truth, reconciliation, justice, memory, reparation, and recognition, and decide how these objectives should be met and whose needs should be served".

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