Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies

Wiebelhaus‐Brahm, Eric

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“…Regarding legal processes, Liberia's truth commission incorporated the diaspora, even if not always effectively (Wiebelhaus-Brahm 2010). The Montreal-based Haitian diaspora was instrumental in the creation of the 1995 Haiti truth commission (Hoogenboom and Quinn 2011).…”

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This special issue seeks to move the scholarly conversation beyond notions of conflict-generated diasporas as simply agents of conflict or peace. The field is ripe to unpack the notion of context for diaspora mobilisation in International Relations, the focus and novelty of this special issue. Theorising in this volume goes beyond current prevalent thinking that contexts are host-states in which diasporas live, and original home-states to which they are transnationally connected. The emphasis here is that diasporas have linkages to different contexts, and that their embeddedness in these contexts -simultaneously or sequentially in time -either shapes their mobilizations or is shaped by them. The volume theorises about spatialities and temporalities of diaspora engagement: it emphasises spatial notions such as multi-sited embeddedness, positionality, and translocalism on the one side, and temporal notions such as critical junctures, transformative events, simultaneity, crises, and durability of conflicts on the other. This collection further adds new thematic areas to current scholarly inquiry, opening the discussion beyond interest in diaspora remittances, economic development, and extraterritorial voting. The authors take little-explored paths to examine diasporas as agents in transitional justice processes, contested sovereignty, and fragile and de facto states, as well as in civic and ethnic-based activism.

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…19 Hunjoon Kim and Kathryn Sikkink, on the other hand, argue that truth commissions have a positive independent effect on human rights conduct, which increases in magnitude if accompanied by prosecutions. Others find truth commissions to have weak negative impact, 20 or no observable impact at all, 21 on democracy and human rights.…”

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Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society

Bakiner¹

2013

International Journal of Transitional Justice

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This article explains whether or not, and the specific ways in which, truth commissions established during a political transition in fact transform lessons from history into political and judicial impact, defined as influence on government policy and judicial processes. It isolates impact from the causal effects of similar postconflict institution building and other transitional justice and conflict resolution measures. Drawing upon the existing literature, it examines several causal mechanisms through which commissions are expected to influence politics and society. These include direct political impact through the implementation of recommendations and indirect political impact through civil society mobilization. Truth commissions may also have positive judicial impact by contributing to human rights accountability and negative judicial impact by promoting impunity. The article concludes that truth commissions do promote political and judicial change, albeit modestly, especially when human rights and victims' groups pressure governments for policy implementation.

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“…While scholars debate which mechanisms, or combination of mechanisms, work most effectively, they generally concur that transitional justice plays a crucial role in promoting peace, stability, human rights and democracy (Sikkink & Walling 2007;Olsen et al . 2010;Wiebelhaus-Brahm 2010;Kim & Sikkink 2010).…”

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An Exploratory Analysis of Civil Society and Transitional Justice

Olsen,

Payne,

Reiter

2012

Civil Society, Conflict and Violence

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Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society

An Exploratory Analysis of Civil Society and Transitional Justice

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