Truth commissions and transitional justice: problems of deliberative moral foundations for think about serious human rights violations against massive numbers of people

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2019.3.33737

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Truth commissions. Transitional justice. Deliberative democracy.

Abstract

This paper presents Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson’s theory on the moral foundations of truth commissions, analyzing it from the perspective of the relation between the normativity of transitional justice and deliberative theories of democracy. I will argue that democratic deliberative requirements, however defensible they may be from the point of view of democracy and justice, and despite having theoretical virtues, are not adequate to think of transitional contexts for democracy dealing with legacies of gross human rights violations.

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San Romanelli Assumpção, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, RJ

PhD in Political Science, University of Sao Paulo (USP), with postdoctoral degree in Political Science, Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESPUERJ). Professor at Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an advisor to the National Truth Commission in 2013 and 2014. Her areas of research and teaching are: theory of justice, theory of democracy, theory of human rights, tolerance and recognition.

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2019-12-06

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Assumpção, S. R. (2019). Truth commissions and transitional justice: problems of deliberative moral foundations for think about serious human rights violations against massive numbers of people. Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 45(3), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2019.3.33737

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Vol. 45 No. 3 (2019): Dossier: Transitional Justice, authoritarian experiences and democracy

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Dossier: Transitional Justice, authoritarian experiences and democracy

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