LEGAL 392T Lecture 6: Truth Commissions in Theory
13 Feb 2017
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Reconciliation is: highly contextual, often at odds with justice. Reconciliation for donald trump: mechanism vs goals. Protests, institutional reform, bipartisan community building vs. Questions relationship building: how much focus should there be on the past, does reconciliation require (retributive) justice, does reconciliation require forgiveness. Political trial that you won"t actually get the truth from nor justice; they just want to kill saddam hussein (if you cut off the head, the body dies) Blame on hussein versus the people individualize guilty (vs selective) Stability values that includes inclusivity of people and opportunity. Reconciliation is needed shows what not to do. Hussein representing himself was to prove how stupid the trial was: syria. Recap: in 2011, during the arab spring, a group rose up in syria. Assad was a powerful person who made sure to have no political opposition. People went to the streets and protested him. He didn"t step down and killed a lot of them.
