Truth Commissions : Memory, Power, and Legitimacy.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Truth, Power, and Legitimation in Truth Commission Processes -- Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? -- Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions -- Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory -- Part II. Zooming In: Political and Social Change Through Truth Commissions -- Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society -- Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru -- Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries -- Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru -- Part III. Zooming Out: Coming to Terms with the Past Through Truth Commissions -- Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political, judicial, and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints, they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory, truth, justice, and reconciliation.

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