Back لجنة الحقيقة والمصالحة Arabic Comissió de la Veritat i la Reconciliació Catalan Wahrheitskommission German Comisión de la verdad Spanish Egiaren eta berradiskidetzearen batzordea Basque Totuus- ja sovintokomissio Finnish Commission de vérité et de réconciliation French Komisi Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi ID Commissione per la verità e la riconciliazione Italian 真実和解委員会 Japanese
A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses. In both their truth-seeking and reconciling functions, truth commissions have political implications: they "constantly make choices when they define such basic objectives as truth, reconciliation, justice, memory, reparation, and recognition, and decide how these objectives should be met and whose needs should be served".[1]
- ^ Bakiner, Onur (2016). Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812247626.