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Research Brief: Country case studies on the use of pardons

Case studies on the use of pardons in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, and South Africa.

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ICTJ

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Research Brief: Selected examples of United States Commissions of Inquiry

ICTJ provides an overview of various United States Commissions of Inquiry. This publication includes briefs on the Senate and House Committee Investigations of the Palmer Raids in 1920, the Senator Frank Church Committee in 1975, a commission into wartime relocation and internment of ...

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ICTJ

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Research Brief: Country case studies on the use of pardons

This research brief provides case studies on the use of pardons in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Peru and South Africa following periods of mass abuse, and highlights subsequent political and civil society action to overcome impunity exacerbated by pardons and amnesties.

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ICTJ

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Transitional Justice and DDR: The Case of South Africa (Brief)

Essential among South Africa's transition programs was a process to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate ex-combatants and to create a new defense force integrating the armed forces of opposing parties into a united military structure. Yet, DDR remained largely independent from other t...

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Hugo van der Merwe and Guy Lamb

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Truth Telling, Identities, and Power in South Africa and Guatemala

Truth commissions can provide a stage for a potentially powerful encounter with the past (and present) at the level of public discourse. While their capacity to effect transformation in societies marked by patterns of identity-related marginalization and exclusion is limited (and the ...

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Madeleine Fullard and Nicky Rousseau

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