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Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understand the work of such commissions.
List of contents
0. Introduction
PART I: Understanding Historical Commissions 1. The Politics of the Past and the Production of Historical Knowledge 2. Historical Commissions: A conceptual Framework 3. Institutionalisation of Historical Commissions 4. Historical Commissions' Methods of Practice
PART II: Mapping Historical Commissions 5. Introduction to the empirical analysis 6. Diplomatic historical commissions 7. Post-totalitarian historical commissions 8. (Post)conflict historical commissions 9. Post-Colonial historical commissions 10. The suitability of the historical method and contribution of the cases to the historical commissions' conceptual framework.
Epilogue 11. Placing historical commissions within the transitional justice paradigm
About the author
Cira Pallí-Asperó is a research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University. Her work lies at the nexus of historiography and transitional justice with focus on state-sanctioned historical commissions.
Summary
Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understand the work of such commissions.
