The Politics of Acknowledgement Truth Commissions in Uganda and Haiti 1st Edition by Joanna R Quinn ISBN 0774818484 9780774818483

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ISBN 10: 0774818484

ISBN 13: 9780774818483 

Author: Joanna R. Quinn

Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Human rights advocates believe that resolving the violence of the past is a necessary condition for a peaceful future and have pushed for truth commissions as part of the healing process since the early 1990s. But how can nations ensure that these commissions are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to explain and assess how instruments of transitional justice such as truth and reconciliation commissions should operate. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to evaluate the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of truth commissions in two countries – Uganda and Haiti. Analysis 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. This timely examination of poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti illuminates the challenges that all truth commissions face in the transition from violence to peace.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

Part 1: Theoretical Model

2 The Politics of Acknowledgement

3 Truth Commissions

4 The Truth Commissions of Uganda and Haiti

Part 2: Analysis: Parallels between the Ugandan and Haitian Cases

5 Political Will

6 Institutional Constraints

7 Whither Acknowledgement?

8 Social Underpinnings

9 Acknowledgement: A New Lens for Evaluation

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