Thesis Bibliography
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Avruch, Kevin and Beatriz Vejarano. “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A Review Essay
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Biggar, Nigel, ed. Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict.
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Beurgenthal, Thomas. “The United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador.” Neil Kritz, ed.
Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes
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Considerations,” 292-325.
Cassel, Couglass W. Jr. “International Truth Commissions and Justice.” Transitional Justice:
How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes vol. III, Ed., Neil J. Kritz.
Washington, D.C.: United States Peace Institute Press, 1995. 326-333.
Chapman, Audrey R. and Patrick Ball, “The Truth of Truth Commissions: Comparative lessons
from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala.” Human Rights Quarterly 23 (2001) 1-43.
Cohen, Stanley. “Government Responses to Human Rights Reports: Claims, Denials, and
Counterclaims.” Human Rights Quarterly 18.3 (1996) 517-543.
Crocker, David A. “Truth Commissions, Transitional Justice, and Civil Society.” Eds. Robert
Rotberg and Dennis Thompson. Truth vs. Justice. Princeton: PVP, 2000.
Ensalaco, Mark. “Truth Commissions for Chile and El Salvador: a Report and Assessment.”
Human Rights Quarterly, Nov 1994: 16.
“El Estado de cumplimiento de las recomendaciones de la ComisiOn para de Esclarecimiento
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“El Salvador: Mexico Peace Agreements — Provisions Creating the Commission on Truth.” U.N.
Doc. S/25500 (April 1, 1993) reprinted in Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies
Reckon with Former Regimes vol. III, Ed., Neil J. Kritz. Washington, D.C.: United States
Peace Institute Press, 1995. 174-176.”El Salvador: Open Letter to the Presidencial Candidates.”
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGAMR290012004, 4/7/2004.
“El Salvador’s Leader Reaches Out to Foes.” The Associated Press, The New York Times. 22
March, 2004.
Farer, Tom J. “Swallowing Injustice to Build Community: Latin America After the Era of State
Terror.” (A lecture delivered at the Institute of International Studies of the University of
California, Berkeley, on April 20, 2000 as part of the Rockefeller Foundation series.)
Ferer, Michel. “Terms of Reconciliation.” Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to
Bosnia. Eds. Carla Alison Hesse and Robert Post. New York: Zone Books, 1999.
“Focus on Guatemala.” The Just Word, The Ignacio Martin-Barg Fund for Mental Health &
Human Rights. 8.2 (Fall 2002): 2-5
Forget, Marc. “Crime as Interpersonal Conflict,” Carol A. Prager and Trudy Govier, eds.
Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts. 111-135.
Forsberg, Tuomas. “The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and
Normative Issues.” ed. Nigel Biggar. Burying the Past. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press, 2003: 65-83.
From Madness to Hope: the 12-year war in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth
for El Salvador, 1993.
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4/11/2004.
Gibney, Mark and Erik Roxstrom. “The State of State Apologies.” Human Rights Quarterly 23
(2001): 911-939.
Grandin, Greg. “Chronicles of a Guatemalan Genocide Foretold: Violence, trauma, and the
Limits of Historical Inquiry.” Nepantla: Views from the South 1.2 (2000): 391-412.
“Guatemala: Deep Cause for Concern: Amnesty International’s assessment of the current human
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1/31/2004.
“Guatemalan Human Rights Commission Update — February 1, 2004.” 16.1-3 (February 1,
2004):1-12.
“Guatemala Massacre Compensation,” BBC News Online, Wednesday, December 12, 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/1703601.stm , 4/7/2004.Guatemala: Memory of Silence: Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification:
Conclusions and Recommendations, “Recommendations.” United Nations Office of Project
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Guatemala: Never Again! Recovery of Historical Memory Project, The Official Report of the
Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999.
Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil. U.S.A.: South End Press, 1984.
Harper, Charles, ed. Impunity: An Ethical Perspective: Six Case Studies from Latin America.
Geneva: WCC Publications, 1996.
Hayner, Patricia B. Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity. New York:
Rutledge, 2001.
Hertvik, Nicole. “El Salvador: affecting change from within” UN Chronicle, 39.3 (Sept-Nov
2002): 75-6.
Instituto Universitario de Opinion Pdblica: Boletin de prensa. Atio XVII, No.1. Universidad
Centroamericana Jose SimeOn Canas. http://www.uca.edu.sv/publica/iudop.
“It’s time for a good national confession.” National Catholic Reporter, 37.32 (June 15, 2001): 28
Jacques, Genevieve. Beyond Impunity: An Ecumenical Approach to Truth, Justice, and
Reconciliation. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2000.
Kaye, Mike. “The Role of Truth Commission in the Search for Justice, Reconciliation, and
Democratisation: The Salvadoran and Honduran Cases.” Journal of Latin American Studies,
29.3 (Oct.,1997): 693-716.
Kincaid, A. Douglas. “Demilitarization and Security in El Salvador and Guatemala:
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(Winter 2000): 39-61.
Klaiber, Jeffrey. The Church, Power, and Popular Legitimacy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,
1998.
Kritz, Neil ed. Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes
(Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995), vol. I General
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Lerche, Charles. “Truth Commissions and National Reconciliation: Some Reflections of Theory
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Louis Kreisberg, “Changing Forms of Coexistence.” Ed. Mohammed Abu-Nimer.
Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory and Practice. Lanham, MD: Lexington
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Lederach, John Paul. “Civil Society and Reconciliation.” Turbulent Peace. Eds. Chester Crocker,
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Maynard, Kimberly A. “Rebuilding Community: Psychosocial Healing, Reintegration, and
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for International Assistance, ed. Krishna Kumar. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
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Menjivar, Elmer. “Festival Verdad: ‘Hay que recuperar el sentido de la fiesta.’
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Minow, Martha. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
Neier, Aryeh. “Rethinking Truth, Justice, and Guilt after Bosnia and Rwanda.” Human Rights in
Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia. Eds. Carla Alison Hesse and Robert Post. New
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Osiel, Mark. Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law. New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction Publishers, 1997.
Parlevliet, Michelle. “Telling the Truth in the Wake of Mass Violence.”
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Popkin, Margaret. Peace Without Justice: Obstacles to Building the Rule of Law in El Salvador.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Prager, Carol A. and Trudy Govier, eds. Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003.
Quinn, Joanna R. and Mark Freeman. “Lessons Learned: Practical Lessons Gleaned from Inside
the Truth Commissions of Guatemala and South Africa.” Human Rights Quarterly 25 (2003):
1117-1149.
Rachel Sieder. “War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala.” Ed. Nigel Biggar.
Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict. (Washington, D.C.:
Georgetown University Press, 2003. 209-234.Rotberg, Robert I. And Dennis Thompson. Truth v. Justice: the Morality of Truth Commissions.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Sarkin, Jeremy. “The Necessity and Challenges to Establishing a Truth Commission in
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Seils, Paul F. “Reconciliation in Guatemala: the Role of Intelligent Justice.” Race and Class,
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Simma, Bruno and Andreas L. Paulus. “The Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Internal
Conflicts: A Positivist View.” American Journal of International Law 93 (April 1999): 302-
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Schirmer, Jennifer. “Whose Testimony? Whose truth? Where are the Armed Actors in the Stoll-
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Stanley, William and David Holiday. “Broad Participation, Diffuse Responsibility: Peace
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Implementation of Peace Agreements, 421-62.
Tepperman, Jonathan D. “Truth and Consequences.” Foreign Affairs 81(March/April 2002):
129-145.
Tomuschat, Christian. “Clarification Commission in Guatemala.” Human Rights Quarterly, 23
(2001): 233-258.
U.N. Doc. S/25500 (April 1, 1993) reprinted in Kritz, Neil J., ed. Transitional Justice: Hoe
Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes. (Washington, D.C.: United States
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Wiessner, Siegfried and Andrew R. Willard. “Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Human Rights
Abuses in Internal Conflict: Toward a World Public Order of Human Dignity.” American
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Zalaquett, Jose. “Confronting Human Rights Violations Committed by Former Governments:
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“Amnesty International: El Salvador” http://web.amensty.org/web/web.nsf/print/s1v-summary-
eng, 4/7/2004.HAVERFORD COLLEGE
“Amnesty International Public Statement: El Salvador: Monument to Memory and Truth —
dignifying the victims of armed conflict.” 12 December, 2003.
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“Memory and Truth after Genocide: Guatemala: Panel Discussion”
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“Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions: Background Cases: El Salvador.”
Lasted reviewed 30 May, 2002.
http://www.truthcommission.org/commission.php?lang=en&cid=2&case.x=38&case.y=6 .
2/15/2004.
“Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions: Design Factors: Proceedings.” Lasted
reviewed 30 May,
2002.http://www.truthcommission.org/factor.php?fid=5&mode=m&lang=en , 2/15/2004.
“Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions: Design Factors: Dissemination of
Findings.” Lasted reviewed 30 May, 2002.
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Other Sources:
Interviews:
Friday, April 2, 2004: Veronica Puentes
Oficial de VerificaciOn de la Asesoria en Derechos Humanos, MINUGUA
Jefa de InvestigaciOn de la Oficina de Enlace de los departamentos de Zacapa, Chiquimula, El
Progreso e Izabal, ComisiOn para el Esclarecimiento HistOrico
Saturday, April 3, 2004: Carlos Leon Ramos,
Licenciado en ciencias de la comunicaciOn, Area de comunicaciones del Institute de Derechos
Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana; San Salvador, El Salvador.
Monday, April 5, 2004: Marco Tulio
Estudiante de Antropologia Social en la Universidad de San Carlos
FundaciOn de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala
Class presentation by Marco Tulio and Juan RamOn Donado from the Guatemalan Forensic
Anthropology Foundation, April 8, 2004. Latin American and Iberian Studies Class,
Haverford College. Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Various conversations with Guatemalans Military, Indigenous Maya, and Civil Society actors
during March 2004 Trip to Guatemala: “The Challenges of Reconciliation in Guatemala”