Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity
By D. Summerfield. British medical journal, 2001
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Priscilla Hayner ![][1] Routledge, £16.99, pp 340 ISBN 0 415 92477 4 Rating: ![][2] ![][3] ![][4] ![][5] The programme director of the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York has produced a scholarly yet compellingly written review of the 21 official truth commissions established around the world since 1974 to document state crimes and to address concepts of reparation, reconciliation, and reform. Hayner starts with an anecdote. “Do you want to remember, or to forget?” she asked a Rwandan government official who had lost every single member of his family in the 1994 genocide. He replied, “We must remember what happened in order to keep it from … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/graphic-3.gif [4]: /embed/graphic-4.gif [5]: /embed/graphic-5.gif
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Emotional Reconciliation (2008, background): “There are also numerous suggestions about how to reconcile a divided society by introducing and institutionalizing non-discriminatory, pluralistic types of political arrangements (see Gobodo-Madikizela, 2002; Hayner, 2001; Honig, 1996; Minow, 1998; Schaap, 2005; Tully, 1995, 1999).”
- The impact of Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda: Psychosocial effects of participation in a truth and reconciliation process after a genocide (2011, background): “Such a need has been found central to victims of genocides whose dignity was dramatically threatened ( " they killed us as animals " ) (Hayner, 2001; Martin Beristain et al., 2000) entailing consequences in term of survivors' guilt and shame.”
- Truth-Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts (2008, unknown): “…of reconciliation as a post-conflict peacebuilding strategy (Hamber & van der Merwe, 1998; Minow, 1998; Lederach, 1999; Rotberg & Thompson, 2000; Hayner, 2001; Helmick & Petersen, 2001; Kotzé, 2002; Bloomfield, Barnes & Huyse, 2003; Brounéus, 2003; Long & Brecke, 2003; Bar-Siman-Tov, 2004;…”
- Collective rituals, emotional climate and intergroup perception: Participation in "Gacaca" tribunals and assimilation of the Rwandan genocide (2007, background): “In line with former observations of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (e.g., Hayner, 2001), participation in such social rituals would have consequences that are at odds with a “cathartic” or discharge view of emotional expression in social contexts.”