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TL;DR: Laplante et al. as discussed by the authors studied the politics of reparations in post-truth commissions and concluded that while the act of telling the truth to an official body is something that helps or hinders a victim-survivor in his or her own recovery process, it must be followed by concrete actions.
Abstract: Truth commissions have become key mechanisms in transitional justice schemes in post conflict societies in order to assure transitions to peace, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. However, few studies examine what must happen to ensure that the transition process initiated by a truth commission successfully continues after the commission concludes its truth-gathering work and submits its final report. This article argues that * Lisa J. Laplante is Deputy Director of Programs and Research, Praxis Institute for Social Justice. She worked with the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a University of Notre Dame Transitional Justice Program grantee. In her capacity as a human rights lawyer and community educator, she has since accompanied victims-survivor groups in their struggle for justice and reparations. She has published on transitional justice themes in international human rights journals and is currently directing the on-site study “After the Truth: The Politics of Reparations in Post Truth Commission” out of which some of the observations shared in this article came, and which will result in a book. ** Kimberly Theidon is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and is Executive Director, Praxis Institute for Social Justice. She is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America. Her research interests include political violence, forms and theories of subjectivity, transitional justice, and the politics of reconciliation. From 2001–2003 she directed a research project on community mental health, reparations and the micropolitics of reconciliation with the Ayacuchan office of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A book based upon this research, Entre Projimos: el conflicto armado interno y la politica de la reconciliacion en el Peru, was published in 2004 by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States Institute for Peace and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for the support that made this research possible. Author Laplante thanks the Transitional Justice Program of the University of Notre Dame for the funding that supported her work with the Peruvian truth commission, the results of which are shared in this article. For their excellent assistance in carrying out this research, we thank Edith Del Pino and Leonor Rivera Sullca. Finally, we thank the many Peruvians who generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. 2007 The Politics of Reparations in Peru 229 while attention often focuses on prosecutions and institutional reforms, reparations also play a critical role. The authors share their observations of how government agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society sectors and victim-survivor’s associations struggle over reparations in post truth commission Peru, offering a preliminary analysis of key theoretical suppositions about transitional justice: they explore whether the act of telling the truth to an official body is something that helps or hinders a victim-survivor in his or her own recovery process, and whether in giving testimonies victim-survivors place particular demands upon the state. The authors conclude that while testimony giving may possibly have temporary cathartic effects, it must be followed by concrete actions. Truth tellers make an implicit contract with their interlocutors to respond through acknowledgment and redress. Oh, why should I remember all of that again? From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, from the bottom of my feet to the top of my head—I’ve told what happened here so many times. And for what? Nothing ever changes.1
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TL;DR: In this article, a justice system is administered when there is no system left to be administered, when the personnel needed to carry out judicial tasks have departed or are tainted by their perceived affiliation with the previous regime; when the courts and related facilities have been destroyed, looted, or even mined; and when the laws to be applied are politically charged and no longer acceptable to the population and the new political classes.
Abstract: How can a justice system be administered when there is no system left to be administered; when the personnel needed to carry out judicial tasks have departed or are tainted by their perceived affiliation with the previous regime; when the courthouses and related facilities have been destroyed, looted, or even mined; and when the laws to be applied are politically charged and no longer acceptable to the population and the new political classes?
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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle.
Abstract: In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived it.
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