Final acts : a guide to preserving the records of truth commissions
"Twenty truth commissions have completed their work of examining and reporting on the abuses of deposed regimes, leaving behind a wide variety of records - transcripts, video and audio recordings, email and computer files, and even artifacts. Why save such evidence? According to the author of Final Acts, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, because preservation "completes the commission's work. Oppressive regimes try to impose a selective amnesia on society....Saving the records makes sure that amnesia does not prevail."" "Final Acts is a guide to questions of law, politics, physical preservation, and access regarding materials generated by these commissions. How do the commission's records relate to the law that created the commission? Who owns evidence submitted to the commission? Are there political constraints on the preservation of or access to some records? Does the country have an institution professionally capable of maintaining the records?" "Final Acts also describes the truth commissions that have completed their work so far and the disposition or, in some cases, loss of their records."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, ©2005