Truth and reconciliation commission

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A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government, in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. They are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established by President Nelson Mandela after apartheid, is generally considered a model of Truth Commissions, rarely if ever achieved in other parts. As government reports, they can provide proof against historical revisionism of state terrorism and other crimes and human rights abuses. Truth commissions are sometimes criticised for allowing crimes to go unpunished, and creating impunity for serious human rights abusers.

Contents 1 List of truth and reconciliation commissions 1.1 Argentina 1.2 Chile 1.3 El Salvador 1.4 Fiji 1.5 Ghana 1.6 Guatemala 1.7 Liberia 1.8 Morocco 1.9 Panama 1.10 Peru 1.11 Sierra Leone 1.12 South Africa 1.13 South Korea 1.14 East Timor 1.15 United States 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] List of truth and reconciliation commissions

[edit] Argentina

• National Commission for Forced Disappearances (Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas)

[edit] Chile

• National Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación; "Rettig Report")
• National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture ("Valech Report")

[edit] El Salvador

• United Nations Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad) [1]

[edit] Fiji

• Reconciliation and Unity Commission

[edit] Ghana

• National Reconciliation Commission [2]

[edit] Guatemala

• Historical Clarification Commission (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico)

[edit] Liberia

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission [3]

[edit] Morocco

• Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER).

[edit] Panama

• Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad)

[edit] Peru

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación)

[edit] Sierra Leone

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission

[edit] South Africa

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission After the transition from apartheid, President Nelson Mandela authorized a truth commission to study the effects of apartheid in that country. [4]

[edit] South Korea

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea (Korean: 진실·화해를 위한 과거사 정리 위원회)[5]

[edit] East Timor

• Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação de Timor Leste; since 2000)
• Truth and Friendship Commission (2005–)[6]

[edit] United States

• Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC) – an unofficial body.
• Joshua Micah Marshall has called for a truth and reconciliation commission about U.S.-sponsored torture in Iraq and elsewhere. [7]
• Kenneth Brady outlines a potential U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission in his movie The Time Is Now, and examines human rights abuses resulting from U.S. foreign policy actions taken over the last 40 years. [8]

[edit] See also

• The German policy of Vergangenheitsbewältigung is commonly compared to truth and reconciliation

[edit] External links

• Truth Commissions Digital Collection (United States Institute of Peace)
• Truth Commission
• International Center of Transitional Justice