1st Edition
Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Historical Perspective
Introduction 1. Dealing with the Past in a Pacted Transition 2. The Direct Consequences of the Chilean TRC 3. Early Debates and Criticisms of the Chilean TRC and its Role in the Transitional Process 4. The Return of the Past: The Arrest of Pinochet and the Mesa de Diálogo 5. The Chilean TRC and International Justice 6. The Chilean Truth Commission and "Late Justice" 7. An Extended Truth and its Effects 8. The Chilean Truth Commissions and Memorialization Conclusions
Biography
Anita Ferrara has recently founded the Centre for Transitional Justice and Development (CTJD), in Rome. She obtained a PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 2012. She has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant at SOAS and has given several lectures on the Master course on "Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Societies". She has previously worked for United Nations Agencies as OHCHR and UNDP, in the fields of Human Rights and Governance, in Chile and Botswana.
"Whereas the first three chapters provide the necessary background on the composition and activity of the Commission, as well as the political context in which it operated, the last five chapters link its work to domestic prosecutions, the subsequent Rettig and Valech commissions, and memorialization projects." Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. --L. Stan, St. Francis Xavier University, CHOICE, May 2015
