In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Author: Adriana Rudling

02 Nov

[Adriana Rudling is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen Norway. Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Instituto Pensar, Bogota, Colombia working on issues relating to the interactions between victims and transitional justice mechanisms.] Eduardo González Cueva once told me the worst thing that can happen to a truth commission is that nobody talks about it, that it goes by unnoticed. This has certainly not been the...

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28 Mar

[Adriana Rudling (@adrianarudling) is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen Norway and a Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Instituto Pensar, Bogota, Colombia working on issues relating to the interactions between victims and transitional justice mechanisms.] The practice of transitional justice (TJ), and particularly truth commissions, emerges as “the bureaucratic response to bureaucratic murder” (p. 78). Given the perils of human rights prosecutions in...

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