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Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions

The Morality of Truth Commissions

Bibliographic Data

ID23398178
EditorsRobert I Rotberg, Dennis Thompson
Year2000
Publication date2000-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTruth V. Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400832033
OpenAlexW1484651877
ISBN9781400832033
LanguageEN
Citations received144

Acknowledgments vii I. Commissions and the Provision of Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation by Robert I. Rotbtrg 3 II. The Moral Foundations of Commissions by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson 22 III. Restoring Decency to Barbaric Societies by Rajeev Bhargava 45 IV Moral Ambition Within and Beyond Political Constraints: Reflections on Restorative Justice by Elizabeth Kiss 68 V Commissions, Transitional Justice, and Civil Society by David A Crockcr 99 VI. The Moral Foundations of the South African TRC: as Acknowledgment and Justice as Recognition by Andre du Toit 122 VII. and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Third Way by Alex Boraine 141 VIII. The Uses of Commissions: Lessons for the World by Dumisa B. Ntsebexa 158 IX. Amnesty, Truth, and Reconciliation: Reflections on the South African Amnesty Process by Ronald C. Slye 170 X. Amnesty's Justice by Kent Greenawalt 189 XI. Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees: The Elusive Search for Norms of Due Process by Sanford Levinson 211 XII. The Hope for Healing: What Can Commissions Do? by Martha Minow 235 XIII. Doing History, Doing Justice: The Narrative of the Historian and of the Commission by Charles S. Mater 261 XIV Constructing a Report: Writing Up the Truth by Charles Villa-Yicencio and Wilhelm Yerwoerd 279 The Contributors 295 Index 299

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