Producing the subjects of reconciliation: the making of Sierra Leoneans as victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations.
Human rights have become a central aspect of global peace-building strategies, and are often pursued through instruments of transitional justice. In this paper I focus on the role of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) for human rights in post-conflict settings and argue that the global poli...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 1110 - 1129 |
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