Lessons learned: Practical lessons gleaned from inside the truth commissions of Guatemala and South Africa

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1117-1149

  Quinn, Joanna R ^a   Freeman, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b International Centre for Transitional Justice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON;

GUATEMALA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0347536075     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2003.0050     Document Type: Article

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