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Encounters with History: Dealing with the 'Present Past' in Guatemala
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Abstract During the past decade the truth commission has risen to prominence as a key instrument of transitional justice. In this article, the Guatemalan "Commission for Historical Clarification" (CEH) and the Catholic "Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory" (REMHI) are taken as examples in demonstra... mehr
During the past decade the truth commission has risen to prominence as a key instrument of transitional justice. In this article, the Guatemalan "Commission for Historical Clarification" (CEH) and the Catholic "Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory" (REMHI) are taken as examples in demonstrating the limitations as well as the benefits of this political instrument that customarily must serve a variety of aims. The importance of the official CEH must be seen within the context of its support for the fragile peace and reform process. Moreover, the CEH presented a historical narrative corresponding to the concomitant need for a multicultural national project. Threatened by still existing local structures of repression, REMHI used methods aimed at facilitating a social process of memory work with a fairly longterm perspective. The influence that CEH and REMHI had or could have had on communicative and cultural memory is described, and the politics of reparation and persistent structures of impunity are dealt with as well.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Guatemala; Menschenrechte; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Unterdrückung; katholische Kirche; Menschenrechtsverletzung; Strafverfolgung; kollektives Gedächtnis; Erinnerungskultur; Lateinamerika
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Repressalien; Menschenrechtsorganisation; Comisión Edificadora Histórica (Guatemala); Straflosigkeit
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 3-19
Zeitschriftentitel
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2006) 81
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.9645
ISSN
0924-0608
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)