Truth v. justice : the morality of truth commissions / edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson.

Contributor(s): Rotberg, Robert I | Thompson, Dennis F. (Dennis Frank), 1940-Material type: TextTextSeries: University Center for Human Values seriesPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. Description: vi, 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0691050716 (alk. paper); 0691050724 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780691050713 (alk. paper); 9780691050720 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: Truth versus justiceSubject(s): South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Amnesty -- South Africa | Amnesty | Apartheid -- South Africa | Human rights -- South Africa | Human rights | Reconciliation | Truth commissionsDDC classification: 333.036 LOC classification: DT 1945 | .T78 2000Other classification: 86.05 Online resources: Sample text Notre Dame Online Access | Table of contents Notre Dame Online Access | Contributor biographical information Online Access | Publisher description Online Access
Contents:
Truth commissions and the provision of truth, justice, and reconciliation / Robert I. Rotberg -- The moral foundations of truth commissions / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson -- Restoring decency to barbaric societies / Rajeev Bhargava -- Moral ambition within and beyond political constraints: reflections on restorative justice / Elizabeth Kiss -- Truth commissions, transitional justice, and civil society / David A. Crocker -- The moral foundations of the South African TRC: truth as acknowledgment and justice as recognition / André du Toit -- Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: the third way / Alex Boraine -- The uses of truth commissions: lessons for the world / Dumisa B. Ntsebeza -- Amnesty, truth, and reconciliation: reflections on the South African amnesty process / Ronald C. Slye -- Amnesty's justice / Kent Greenawalt -- Trials, commissions, and investigating committees: the elusive search for norms of due process / Sanford Levinson -- The hope for healing: what can truth commissions do? / Martha Minow -- Doing history, doing justice: the narrative of the historian and of the truth commission / Charles S. Maier -- Constructing a report: writing up the "truth" / Charles Villa-Vicencio and Wilhelm Verwoerd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Truth commissions and the provision of truth, justice, and reconciliation / Robert I. Rotberg -- The moral foundations of truth commissions / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson -- Restoring decency to barbaric societies / Rajeev Bhargava -- Moral ambition within and beyond political constraints: reflections on restorative justice / Elizabeth Kiss -- Truth commissions, transitional justice, and civil society / David A. Crocker -- The moral foundations of the South African TRC: truth as acknowledgment and justice as recognition / André du Toit -- Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: the third way / Alex Boraine -- The uses of truth commissions: lessons for the world / Dumisa B. Ntsebeza -- Amnesty, truth, and reconciliation: reflections on the South African amnesty process / Ronald C. Slye -- Amnesty's justice / Kent Greenawalt -- Trials, commissions, and investigating committees: the elusive search for norms of due process / Sanford Levinson -- The hope for healing: what can truth commissions do? / Martha Minow -- Doing history, doing justice: the narrative of the historian and of the truth commission / Charles S. Maier -- Constructing a report: writing up the "truth" / Charles Villa-Vicencio and Wilhelm Verwoerd.

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