Description: Further DetailsTitle: Truth Without ReconciliationCondition: NewSubtitle: A Human Rights History of GhanaAuthor: Abena Ampofoa AsareFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0812250397EAN: 9780812250398ISBN: 9780812250398Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressGenre: Law & PoliticsRelease Date: 07/31/2018Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmBook Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Truth Without Reconciliation
Title: Truth Without Reconciliation
Subtitle: A Human Rights History of Ghana
ISBN-10: 0812250397
EAN: 9780812250398
ISBN: 9780812250398
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Date: 07/31/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Truth Without Reconciliation : a Human Rights History of Ghana
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Africa / West, Human Rights, Interpersonal Relations, World / African
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Author: Abena Ampofoa Asare
Subject Area: Political Science, Psychology, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser.
Format: Hardcover
