Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Svärd, Proscovia; Ibhawoh, Bonny

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use - Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs') documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040110621
• Artikelnr.: 72286038

Autorenporträt

Proscovia Svärd is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi. She has formerly worked at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information systems and Technology, Forum for Digitalization, Mid Sweden University. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria. She carried out her Post-doctoral Research at the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Postgraduate Studies, University of South Africa, between 2016-2017 and completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She has a Licentiate Degree in Data and Systems Sciences, BA and MA in Archives and Information Science from Mid Sweden University, Sweden and a BSc in Media and Information Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. Bonny Ibhawoh is a Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada. He is a United Nations Human Rights Expert with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva. With over 30 years of experience as a human rights educator, policy maker and practitioner, he has taught in Universities in Africa, Europe, the United States and Canada. He is the Project Director of Participedia, a global scholarly network on democratic innovation. He is also the Project Director of the Confronting Atrocity Project, a transnational project on restorative justice at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Section 1: Access to Information and Transitional Justice;
Chapter 1: Archives and Transitional Justice: Lessons from Colombia's Truth
Commission; Chapter 2: Truth Commissions, Vitriol Memory and Governance
Failure in Nigeria; Chapter 3: Democracy and Access to Information on Human
Rights Violations in Nigeria (1999 - 2002); Chapter 4: The Ivorian
2011-2013 Truth Commission as a Practice of Securitising Truth; Section 2:
Navigating Archives and Issues of Access and Ownership; Chapter 5: The
Exiled Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Documentation;
Chapter 6: Full Access for Full Truth - The Canadian TRC and its Records;
Chapter 7: Truth Commissions¿ documentation in Brazil: challenges and
legacy; Chapter 8: Decolonizing Copyright: Appropriation, Intellectual
Property, and Cultural Heritage: Copyright; Section 3: Memorialization and
Commemoration; Chapter 9: States of Apology: The Politics of Memory,
Access, and Irish Archives Legislation Barry Houlihan and Eliscia Kinder;
Chapter 10: The Crisis of Memory: The Ethics of Managing Traumatic Adverse
Events in Truth Commissions Research; Chapter 11: From television news
broadcast to online archive: Truth Commission Special Report's
documentation of perpetratorship and political transition in South Africa;
Chapter 12: Democratizing Digital Discourses: Considerations for the Use of
Truth Commission Testimony in Virtual Museums