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Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Abena Ampofoa Asare

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Description: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 a future justice.However, there are risks as well as rewards to dredging up this survivors' history of Ghana. The revealed truth of Ghana's human rights history is the variety and dissonances of multiple 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights). To get started finding Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 a future justice.However, there are risks as well as rewards to dredging up this survivors' history of Ghana. The revealed truth of Ghana's human rights history is the variety and dissonances of multiple 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights). To get started finding Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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