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CIPN - 15 May 2017 - Left Unsettled: The Politics of left-wing Militants’ Confessions to Past Violence
Professor Leigh Payne (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)Professor Paloma Aguilar (Department of Political Science, UNED) AbstractWhat happens when state perpetrators publicly confess to human rights violations in past dictatorships? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission considered them crucial to delivering on the promise of truth and reconciliation. But Payne's study of perpetrators' confessions within and outside such commissions challenges that assumption. She finds that perpetrators' versions of the past, not always the truth, emerge. She further contends that conflict, and not reconciliation, is the outcome of these confessions. This conflict is not necessarily negative for democracy. She argues that "contentious coexistence" puts fundamental democratic values of participation, contestation, and expression in practice. She sets out this argument in her book Unsettling Accounts. In this presentation she will present a study she has begun on con
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Professor Leigh Payne (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)Professor Paloma Aguilar (Department of Political Science, UNED) AbstractWhat happens when state perpetrators publicly confess to human rights violations in past dictatorships? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission considered them crucial to delivering on the promise of truth and reconciliation. But Payne's study of perpetrators' confessions within and outside such commissions challenges that assumption. She finds that perpetrators' versions of the past, not always the truth, emerge. She further contends that conflict, and not reconciliation, is the outcome of these confessions. This conflict is not necessarily negative for democracy. She argues that "contentious coexistence" puts fundamental democratic values of participation, contestation, and expression in practice. She sets out this argument in her book Unsettling Accounts. In this presentation she will present a study she has begun on con
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