Some suggested bibliography to get into the topic of Truth Commissions and Dealing with the Past used to prepare the course materials
by Roberta Bacic, March 2004
Articles
- Assisting survivors of war and atrocity Derek Summerfield published in Development in Practice, Volume 5, number 4, 1995
- What are Truth Commissions? Roberta Bacic in Peace News 2438, pages 16/17
- Mental health and political repression viewed from a social and cultural perspective Pau Perez, Teresa Duran, Roberta Bacic in Journal of the International Society for Health and Human Rights, Volume l, number l, 1998, pages 25/34
- Dealing with the Past: Chile - human rights and human wrongs Roberta Bacic in Race & Class, TRUTH?, Volume 44, July-September 2002
Novels
- Red Dust Gillian Slovo, Virago Press 2000
- Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje, Bloomsbury, London 2000
- The Reader Bernhard Schlink, Phoenix Paperback, London 1998
- My Invented Country, by Isabel Allende, Flamingo, London, 2003
- Speak you also, by Paul Steinberg, Penguin Books, 2002
- Cuántas veces se puede matar a un hombre Raymundo Paredes Ahlgren, Ediciones B, Santiago de Chile, Octubre 2002
Books from the field
English
- Dealing with the past, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa Published by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town, 1994
- Guatemala: Thinking about the Unthinkable the Association of Artists for Guatemala, 1999
- Justice and Reconciliation after the violence Andrew Rigby, UK Lynne Rienner Publishers, inc, 2001
- No Future Without Forgiveness D.Tutu, London, Rider, Random House, 1999
- Past imperfect, Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland and Societies in Transition INCORE, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1998
- State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, by Elizabeth Jelin, Latin American Bureau, London UK, 2003
- The Lugano Report, on preserving capitalism in the Twenty-first century Susan George, Pluto Press 1999
- Truth F. Fernández-Armesto, London, Bantam Press, 1997
- Truths & Lies J. Eldestein, London, Granta Publications, 2001
- Unfinished Business. State Killings and the Quest for Truth Bill Rolston, BTP Publications Ltd, Belfast, 2000
- Unfinished business T. Bell, South Africa Red Works, 2001
- Unspeakable truths, confronting State Terror and atrocity Priscilla Hayner, Routledge London, 2001
Spanish
- Crímenes e Impunidad, la experiencia del trabajo médico, psicológico, social y jurídico en la violación al Derecho a la Vida CODEPU-DIT-T, Serie Verdad y Justicia, Número 6, Santiago de Chile Diciembre 1996
- Muerte y Desaparición Forzada en la Araucanía: Una Aproximación Etnica Pau Pérez, Roberta Bacic y Teresa Durán, Universidad católica de Temuco, Septiembre 1998
- Memorias recientes de mi Pueblo 1973-1990 Araucanía Bacic, Teresa Durán, Roberto Arroyo, Pau Pérez, Temuco/Chile, Octubre 1997
- Las venas abiertas de América Latina Galeano, siglo veintiuno ediciones, sa, cuadragésima edición, enero 1985
Web pages
Truth Commission reports and related matters
- www.truthcommission.org
Strategic choices in the design of Truth Commissions - www.neveragain.net
Memory, Truth-Telling and the pursuit of Justice - www.nuncamas.org/index.htm. (Argentina)
- www.derechoschile.com/derechos/sitios_eng.html (Chile)
- www.ddhh.gov.cl (Chile)
- http://www.nd.edu/~ndlibs/eresources/etexts/truth/table_of_contents.htm (Chile, in English)
- www.easttimor-reconciliation.org (East Timor)
- www.truth.org.za (South Africa)
- hrdata.aaas.org/ceh. (Guatemala)
- www.derechos.org/nizkor/salvador/informes/truth.html (El Salvador)
- www.cverdad.org.pe (Perú) English & Spanish
- www.usip.org/library/truth.html (Truth Commissions Digital Collection)
Other interesting websites
- www.healingthroughremembering.org (Northern Ireland, Healing Through Remebering Project and its Report)
- wri-irg.org/dealpast.htm (multilingual index page)
- www.legacy-project.org/about/index.html global exchange on the enduring consequences of the many historical tragedies of the 20th century.
- www.derechoschile.com/derechos/chrono_eng.html
provides a general overview of the period beginning September 11, 1973 to the present. - www.menschenrechte.org
Human Rights NGO in Nuremberg in German, Spanish and English - www.ecomemoria.com (Struggle against Impunity, Chilean project)
- www.memoriaviva.com (Human Rights Violations in Chile, done in London and only in Spanish)
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