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[Priscilla B. Hayner] ✓ Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity Readable truths R. Hayner This is fascinating. This very important topic could have made for boring reading, but the author (who obviously knows the subject thoroughly and first hand) has made it quite interesting. This book will never be outdated, as it covers past events that bring to mind so many things that are going on today and, unfortunately, will be tomorrow as well. (I wonder when a truth commission will be set up for Iraq.) Authoritative yet simply worded, the book is for anyone and ev
| Title | : | Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.56 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415924774 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Hayner examines twenty major truth commissions established around the world paying special attention to South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala.. This book is a profound exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve
Readable truths R. Hayner This is fascinating. This very important topic could have made for boring reading, but the author (who obviously knows the subject thoroughly and first hand) has made it quite interesting. This book will never be outdated, as it covers past events that bring to mind so many things that are going on today and, unfortunately, will be tomorrow as well. (I wonder when a truth commission will be set up for Iraq.) Authoritative yet simply worded, the book is for anyone and everyone who cares anything about the world outside the box.. R. Romero said The best research on the subject!. Priscilla did a magnificent and fascinating job in this book. It contains plenty of cases and suggests why few succeed and many fail.A must have for people working on transitional justice/truth/reconciliation/peace.. The Margins of Truth Amazon Customer Priscilla Hayner is, very likely, the world's most expert writer on 'truth commissions'. This book is a follow-up on the article '15 Truth Commissions', published in the Human Rights Quarterly, which was the first systematic review of the issue up to the mid-1990s. This book deals with dozens of examples up to 1999. Hayner describes how truth commissions are being established.How they operate under very different mandates, e.g. on presidential order, by parliamentary decision, under U.N. auspices, or as a judicial commission of enquiry. How some commissions deal with a
Hayner co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice and served as program director and director of its Geneva office. Priscilla B. She has advised truth commissions in well over a dozen countries, working with the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, and others, and has been featured in Newsweek, the New York Times
It should be widely read." -- Timothy Garton Ash, from the preface. "A compelling account one has examined these bodies more closely and more perceptively that Pricilla Hayner." -- Aryeh Neier, author of War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice"This is a scrupulous, important and necessary book
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