Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society.
Including international contributions from a range of disciplines, the volume discusses the challenges that surround TRCs documentation. Considering the impact of the politicization of documentation, chapters also highlight the lack of political will to democratize information, the lack of dissemination and the preservation infrastructures that hinder access and its effective use and re-use. Arguing that TRCs documentation should be used to inform policy, improve governance and to promote justice, healing and reconciliation, the volume considers the ethical challenges involved in disseminating such information. Contributing authors argue that information professionals should play a major role in the planning for the TRCs information management infrastructures, if they are to facilitate access, effectively manage the generated documentation, deal with preservation of the compound records and promote the dissemination of the TRC findings.
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions demonstrates that TRCs documentation provides validation of human rights violations and that it helps to promote an understanding of the causes of conflict. As such, it will be essential reading for academics and students working in Archival Studies, Information Science, History, Transitional Justice, and Peace and Conflict Studies
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society.
Introduction; Section 1: Access to Information and Transitional Justice;
Chapter 1: Archives and Transitional Justice: Lessons from Colombias Truth
Commission;
Chapter 2: Truth Commissions, Vitriol Memory and Governance
Failure in Nigeria;
Chapter 3: Democracy and Access to Information on Human
Rights Violations in Nigeria (1999 2002);
Chapter 4: The Ivorian 2011-2013
Truth Commission as a Practice of Securitising Truth; Section 2: Navigating
Archives and Issues of Access and Ownership;
Chapter 5: The Exiled Liberian
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Documentation;
Chapter 6: Full Access
for Full Truth - The Canadian TRC and its Records;
Chapter 7: Truth
Commissions“ documentation in Brazil: challenges and legacy;
Chapter 8:
Decolonizing Copyright: Appropriation, Intellectual Property, and Cultural
Heritage: Copyright; Section 3: Memorialization and Commemoration;
Chapter 9:
States of Apology: The Politics of Memory, Access, and Irish Archives
Legislation Barry Houlihan and Eliscia Kinder;
Chapter 10: The Crisis of
Memory: The Ethics of Managing Traumatic Adverse Events in Truth Commissions
Research;
Chapter 11: From television news broadcast to online archive: Truth
Commission Special Reports documentation of perpetratorship and political
transition in South Africa;
Chapter 12: Democratizing Digital Discourses:
Considerations for the Use of Truth Commission Testimony in Virtual Museums
Proscovia Svärd is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi. She has formerly worked at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information systems and Technology, Forum for Digitalization, Mid Sweden University. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria. She carried out her Post-doctoral Research at the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Postgraduate Studies, University of South Africa, between 2016-2017 and completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She has a Licentiate Degree in Data and Systems Sciences, BA and MA in Archives and Information Science from Mid Sweden University, Sweden and a BSc in Media and Information Science from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Bonny Ibhawoh is a Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada. He is a United Nations Human Rights Expert with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva. With over 30 years of experience as a human rights educator, policy maker and practitioner, he has taught in Universities in Africa, Europe, the United States and Canada. He is the Project Director of Participedia, a global scholarly network on democratic innovation. He is also the Project Director of the Confronting Atrocity Project, a transnational project on restorative justice at McMaster University.
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