Author: Priscilla B. Hayner<br />File Type: pdf<br />This volume is an exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Truth commissions-official investigations into government crimes and misconduct are the only medicine a new government has to cure the diseases of the old regime. The author examines the 20 major truth commissions established around the world, paying special attention to South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala. As she explores the inner workings of these tribunals, she finds that victims are torn between the need to remember and the need to forget. This book is a profound exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Hayner examines twenty major truth commissions established around the world paying special attention to South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala.ReviewA compelling account . . .no one has examined these bodies more closely and more perceptively that Pricilla Hayner. -- Aryeh Neier, author of War Crimes Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for JusticeThis is a scrupulous, important and necessary book. It should be widely read. -- Timothy Garton Ash, from the prefaceAbout the AuthorPriscilla B. Hayner co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice and served as program director and director of its Geneva office. She has advised truth commissions in well over a dozen countries, working with the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, and others, and has been featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Le Temps. She is currently writing on the subject of justice in peace negotiations.