LEGAL 392T Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mixed Economy, National Resistance Army, Idi Amin
22 Feb 2017
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Who is priscilla hayner: 1994 identified truth commissions as a new intervention that the government could use became a millionaire. Became the go to person but couldn"t handle it on her own. Co-started the organization, the international center for. Transitional justice : comes from a mennonite family, all very socially justice orientated, went to el salvador and found herself in the truth commission. Was most interested in the politics of it. Prompted her to think about truth commissions more broadly. Received a grant to study it: helped make the professionalization of truth commissions. People separate from the problem at hand: bodies set up to investigate pase human rights abuses in a particular country. Not specific incidents-attempts to paint overall picture of abuses over a specific time. Some sort of authority/sponsor for greater access to information. Why truth commissions: not simply fact finding, about acknowledgement (psychological well being)
