TY - BOOK ID - 101618200 TI - The politics of acknowledgement PY - 2010 SN - 1280777818 9786613688200 0774818484 0774818468 9780774818483 0774818476 9780774818476 9780774818469 9781280777813 6613688207 9780774818476 9780774818469 PB - Vancouver DB - UniCat KW - Truth commissions KW - Truth commissions. KW - Commissions, Truth KW - Reconciliation commissions KW - Governmental investigations KW - Human rights UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101618200 AB - Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm � by both victims and perpetrators � must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion. ER -