Unsettling accounts : neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence
Boek
Focusing on confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. She contends public confessions do not settle the past, but catalyze contentious debate. She argues debate and public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation ...
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies