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dc.contributor.authorWiebelhaus-Brahm, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T17:24:13Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-01
dc.identifieroai:www.cmi.no:8104
dc.identifier.citationin Negotiation and Conflict Management Research vol. 14 no. 3 pp. 170-186
dc.identifier.issn1750-4716
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2836979
dc.description.abstractAs global transitional justice norms strengthen, governments face increasingly pressure to enact formal transitional justice mechanisms to resolve domestic conflict. This article examines how Bahrain, Morocco, and Sri Lanka attempted to exploit these norms to appease demands and stave off international transitional justice intervention by employing truth commissions. Governments framed truth commissions and their responses to their investigations as sufficient to address the past. To varying degrees, though, domestic audiences and the international community refused to accept this framing. As such, truth commission investigations and their reports failed to resolve the respective conflicts. Rather, they prolonged attention on governments’ past and present misdeeds. For governments, the risk this strategy backfires is higher when human rights violations have been more extensive and extreme, when governments construct a more obviously biased truth‐seeking process and display little interest in enacting recommendations, and when governments have failed to cultivate strong ties with Western powers.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cmi.no/publications/8104-global-transitional-justice-norms-and-the-framing-of-truth-commissions-in-the-absence-of-transition
dc.subjectTruth Commissions
dc.subjectNorms
dc.subjectFraming Transitional Justice
dc.subjectMorocco
dc.subjectBahrain
dc.subjectSri Lanka
dc.titleGlobal Transitional Justice Norms and the Framing of Truth Commissions in the Absence of Transition
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.doi10.34891/rrhx-kc87
dc.identifier.doi10.34891/rrhx-kc87


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