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Truth and Reconciliation

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There have been at least fifty truth and reconciliation commissions since 1973 (for a list to 2002 see Avruch and Ajerano 2001: 47–108; to 2010 see Hazan 2010: 52). They were usually set up after “popular revolutions” have overthrown former regimes.

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Davidson, A. (2015). Truth and Reconciliation. In: Migration in the Age of Genocide. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21849-6_7

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