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Truth Commissions and the Accountability Relationships They Generate: A New Framework to Evaluate Their Impact
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- Issue Date
- 2015-11
- Citation
- Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.3 No.2, pp. 233-251
- Keywords
- truth commissions ; accountability ; vertical and horizontal relationships ; civil society ; impact assessment
- Abstract
- Truth commissions (TCs) have become a recurrent mechanism for states to deal with and address past human rights violations. This article argues that TCs generate accountability relationships at three different stages. Before their establishment, TCs generate vertical accountability relationships between civil society and the state. During the period between their establishment and the release of the final report, TCs hold state agencies horizontally accountable. In their final reports, TCs put forward recommendations capable of generating horizontal accountability between the governing regime and the state agencies towards which the recommendations are directed, and vertical accountability as civil society pushes the governing regime to implement these recommendations. This article suggests criteria for evaluating how truth commissions contribute to promoting accountability.
- ISSN
- 2288-2693 (print)
2288-2707 (online)
- Language
- English
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