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https://theconversation.com/do-truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-heal-divided-nations-109925>
"As long as unresolved historic injustices continue to fester in the
world, there will be a demand for truth commissions.
Unfortunately, there is no end to the need.
The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and
reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public
hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice,
typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of
the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also
officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move
beyond the painful past.
Over the past three decades, more than 40 countries have, like Canada,
established truth commissions, including Chile, Ecuador, Ghana,
Guatemala, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
South Africa and South Korea. The hope has been that restorative justice
would provide greater healing than the retributive justice modelled most
memorably by the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War."
Via Muse, who wrote "Terrific article about the US (and Australian) need
for a proper Truth and Reconciliation Commission."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
