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Unspeakable truths : facing the challenge of truth commissions

Priscilla Hayner, Timothy Garton Ash

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1. Introduction 2. Confronting Past Crimes 3. Why a Truth Commission? 4. Five Illustrative Truth Commissions 5. Sixteen Less Prominent Commissions 6. What is Truth? 7. Truth vs. Justice 8. Naming the Guilty 9. Healing from the Past 10. An Eye to the Future 11. Reparations for State Crimes 12. Leaving the Past Alone 13. Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court 14. Inside the Commission 15. Challenges and Assistance From the Outside

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Key concepts: Commission, Political science, Law, State (computer science), Economic Justice, Transitional justice, Criminology, Psychology