Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana
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Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana
（Pennsylvania studies in human rights）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-231) and index
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内容説明
Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies cacophony as the most valuable and overlooked consequence of this process in Ghana. By collecting and preserving the voices of a diverse cross-section of the national population, Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission (2001-2004) created an unprecedented public archive of postindependence political history as told by the self-described victims of human rights abuse.
The collected voices in the archives of this truth commission expand Ghana's historic record by describing the state violence that seeped into the crevices of everyday life, shaping how individuals and communities survived the decades after national independence. Here, victims of violence marshal the language of international human rights to assert themselves as experts who both mourn the past and articulate the path toward future justice.
There are, however, risks as well as rewards for dredging up this survivors' history of Ghana. The revealed truth of Ghana's human rights history is the variety and dissonance of suffering voices. These conflicting and conflicted records make it plain that the pursuit of political reconciliation requires, first, reckoning with a violence that is not past but is preserved in national institutions and individual lives. By exploring the challenge of human rights testimony as both history and politics, Asare charts a new course in evaluating the success and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in Africa and around the world.
目次
Preface
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Making the NRC Archive
Chapter 2. Human Rights and Ghanaian History
Chapter 3. Kalabule Women
Chapter 4. Family Histories of Political Violence
Chapter 5. The Suffering of Being Developed
Chapter 6. Soldier, Victim, Hero, Survivor
Chapter 7. Time for Suffering / Time for Justice
Conclusion. The Brief Afterlife of Ghana's Truth Commission
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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