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Confessions to Violence
Working with Perpetrators and Victims of State Violence: Notes from the Field
This methodological essay reflects on the practical and ethical challenges of researching both state agents who committed abuses and the victims who suffered them, including questions of access, trust, safety, retraumatization, and researchers’ own complicity and emotional responses
Confessions to Violence
Confessional Performances: Perpetrators’ Testimonies to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This chapter analyzes amnesty‑hearing testimony as a form of staged performance. It proposes an interpretive, performance‑oriented methodology for reading perpetrator testimony that illuminates how truth, responsibility, and reconciliation are negotiated in and through highly scripted public acts.
Confessions to Violence
Confessional Performances: A Methodological Approach to Studying Perpetrators’ Testimonies
This chapter proposes that researchers treat perpetrators’ accounts in trials, truth commissions, media interviews, and memoirs as staged “performances” rather than straightforward evidence of truth or deceit.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
The Business of Transitional Justice
Scholars and practitioners have referred to corporate accountability as the missing piece of the transitional justice puzzle. This chapter suggests that is not entirely the case. This chapter fills in that missing puzzle piece using analysis of an original Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice data base…
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Violations
Over the past several years, two bodies of literature on corporate complicity in human rights violations have emerged: one focused on business and human rights, the other on accountability through transitional justice mechanisms in dictatorships and armed conflicts. This review argues that connecting them offers insights into pathways to reduce corporate abuses and strengthen human rights cultures.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
La complicidad corporativa en las violaciones de derechos humanos: ¿Una innovación de la justicia transicional en Argentina?
Este trabajo examina si los esfuerzos de Argentina para responsabilizar a empresas por su complicidad en las violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas durante la dictadura militar (1976–1983) constituyen una genuina innovación dentro del campo de la justicia transicional, o si se trata de un caso excepcional difícilmente replicable.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian Dictatorship
Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission.
Confessions to Violence
Perpetrators’ Confessions. Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Argentina
Truth-telling has become a widespread practice in settling accounts with past repressive regimes in Latin America. It has also assumed a variety of forms: from government-mandated truth commissions, to non-governmental-organization-sponsored historical memory projects, to individual testimonials. This chapter discusses the potential value of perpetrators’ confessions to truth and reconciliation in countries emerging from authoritarian rule.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Report on Truth Commissions and Corporate Complicity
This report presents an Oxford University study examining how truth commissions across 30 countries have identified and addressed corporate complicity in human rights violations during dictatorships and armed conflicts.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Can a Treaty on Business and Human Rights help Achieve Transitional Justice Goals?
Although the definition and purpose of transitional justice (TJ) does not preclude the inclusion of non-state business actors’ involvement in past authoritarian state or armed conflict violence, these types human rights violations are not included in formal TJ mandates. This article participates in the ongoing discussions and design of a UN-initiated proposal for a treaty on business and human rights by adding the TJ dimension.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Justicia de abajo hacia arriba. Protagonismo latinoamericano en complicidad empresarial y justicia transicional
This chapter argues that Latin America has played a leading role in developing “bottom‑up” mechanisms to hold economic actors accountable for their complicity in human rights violations under authoritarian regimes and in armed conflicts.
Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice
Complicidad económica y justicia transicional en América Latina
El capítulo analiza cómo actores económicos —empresas, gremios empresariales y élites financieras— fueron cómplices de violaciones masivas de derechos humanos en dictaduras y conflictos armados latinoamericanos, y cómo esa complicidad ha sido (o no) abordada por la justicia transicional.
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