@article{ref1,
title="Truth and reconciliation commissions: problems in transitional justice and the reconstruction of identity",
journal="Transcultural psychiatry",
year="2010",
author="Avruch, K.",
volume="47",
number="1",
pages="33-49",
abstract="This article considers some of the main features of so-called truth and reconciliation commissions, their history and structure and their characteristic concerns with respect to their central dilemmas, including: how they grapple with notions of truth, justice, liability, reconciliation, apology and forgiveness, and how they address the need to support the &quot;reconstruction&quot; of selves and identities in the wake of massive trauma and collective violence. A particular concern is with how such commissions or related tribunals engender what can be called a &quot;one-to-many&quot; dynamic, in which they try to effect social reconciliation while focusing attention, via testimony and story-telling, on the traumas and suffering of individual victims.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-4615",
doi="10.1177/1363461510362043",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461510362043"
}