Unsettling Accounts - Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence - Paperback - 2008

Asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. This book contends that public confessions do not settle the past. It argues that this debate and the public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas.
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 392 pages, 22 illustrations
Format: Paperback
Serie: The Cultures and Practice of Violence