Theme: Post Truth Commission Processes in the World
Justification
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is entering into its final stage and is therefore starting to prepare post commission mechanisms in order to secure the efficient and effective implementation of its recommendations and the collection of discoveries and messages that the Final Report will contain. This seminar aims to explore the context and the mechanisms implemented in other truth commissions in Latin America and the world, examining how both the state and society received and reacted to the Final Reports. It is hoped that the lessons learnt from these experiences can help the Peruvian process. The TRC wishes to emphasize the relationships between the truth collected by these commissions and the processes that come afterwards: policies of reparations, processes of justice and the perspective of reconciliation. With these studies and recognizing the particularities of each country, the TRC hopes to enrich and strengthen concrete proposals for the work to be carried out post truth commission.
Strategy
For this last stage, the TRC has organized a high impact public Seminar which will include the international community and which will act as a reference point between past and future work.
Organizers
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Peru
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- International IDEA
- International Centre for Transitional Justice ICTJ
Dates: 4, 5 and 6 June 2003
Objectives
a) Create discussion of post truth commission experiences – with a focus on the relationships between truth, reparation, justice and reconciliation – in the context of Latin America and the world, in order to develop a comparative perspective that will serve as a reference point for the Peruvian experience.
b) Analyse the processes and the recommendations of the Commissions in these countries, looking at the roles of the State, Civil Society – amongst others – and examining how these plans and policies have directly affected those affected, so that Peruvian society can strengthen the efficiency of the plans and policies to be implemented.
c) Prepare a better public understanding of and commitment to the post commission agenda that the TRC is proposing.
d) Create a consensus and a favourable climate – both at the national and international level – for the effective and viable implementation of the post commission mechanisms in Peru.
Impact
a) Leaders of opinion, intellectuals and politicians – national and international – will reflect on themes related to the final stages of the TRC.
b) The media will give broad coverage to the seminar, not only because of its content but also due to the quality of the international invitees.
c) International invitees will realize high profile activities – ceremonies, interviews, private meetings, press conferences, (cultural) public activities.
d) Hopes to secure the commitment of the Peruvian Government and the international community in order to implement national plans of institutional reforms, reparations, justice and reconciliation.
e) Hopes to create a climate of trust in the citizens of Peru which will create a favourable attitude for a process of national reconciliation which looks to the future.
Plan
There will also be thematic working groups and discussions held prior to the event (April and May) in order to prepare civil society and the State for this event.
Closing Ceremony
- President of the TRC, Salomón Lerner
- President of the Republic, Alejandro Toledo Manrique.
Public
Leaders of opinion from all around the world, representatives from the judiciary, legislative and executive powers, academics, intellectuals, students of the topics, NGOs, social networks, victims and the public in general.
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