Do Truth and Reconciliation Committees Improve Human Rights? Evidence From Africa

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Journal of the Middle East and Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/21520844.2020.1808401

Paul Kubicek, Christina P. Walker

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of truth and reconciliation committees (TRCs) on human rights in Africa. It examines the effects of fifteen different TRCs from 1984–2014, and fills a gap in the existent literature by developing measures to assess the strength of each TRC. Many African TRCs are quite weak. Nevertheless, the study does not find that stronger TRCs are more successful in terms of human rights outcomes. While not dismissing the value of TRCs, this work discusses limitations of quantitative studies on their impact.

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真相与和解委员会改善人权吗？来自非洲的证据

摘要本文探讨了真相与和解委员会对非洲人权的影响。它考察了1984年至2014年15个不同TRC的影响，并通过制定评估每个TRC强度的措施填补了现有文献中的空白。许多非洲真相与和解委员会相当薄弱。然而，该研究并没有发现，就人权成果而言，更强大的真相与和解委员会更成功。虽然没有否定TRCs的价值，但这项工作讨论了定量研究对其影响的局限性。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to include both the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East within its purview—exploring the historic social, economic, and political links between these two regions, as well as the modern challenges they face. Interdisciplinary in its nature, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa approaches the regions from the perspectives of Middle Eastern and African studies as well as anthropology, economics, history, international law, political science, religion, security studies, women''s studies, and other disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to promote new research to understand better the past and chart more clearly the future of scholarship on the regions. The histories, cultures, and peoples of the Middle East and Africa long have shared important commonalities. The traces of these linkages in current events as well as contemporary scholarly and popular discourse reminds us of how these two geopolitical spaces historically have been—and remain—very much connected to each other and central to world history. Now more than ever, there is an acute need for quality scholarship and a deeper understanding of the Middle East and Africa, both historically and as contemporary realities. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa seeks to provide such understanding and stimulate further intellectual debate about them for the betterment of all.