Some suggested bibliography to get into the topic of Truth Commissions and Dealing with the Past used to prepare the course materials

by Roberta Bacic, March 2004

Articles

Assisting survivors of war and atrocity Derek Summerfield published in Development in Practice, Volume 5, number 4, 1995
What are Truth Commissions? Roberta Bacic in Peace News 2438, pages 16/17
Mental health and political repression viewed from a social and cultural perspective Pau Perez, Teresa Duran, Roberta Bacic in Journal of the International Society for Health and Human Rights, Volume l, number l, 1998, pages 25/34
Dealing with the Past: Chile - human rights and human wrongs Roberta Bacic in Race & Class, TRUTH?, Volume 44, July-September 2002

Red Dust Gillian Slovo, Virago Press 2000
Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje, Bloomsbury, London 2000
The Reader Bernhard Schlink, Phoenix Paperback, London 1998
My Invented Country, by Isabel Allende, Flamingo, London, 2003
Speak you also, by Paul Steinberg, Penguin Books, 2002
Cuántas veces se puede matar a un hombre Raymundo Paredes Ahlgren, Ediciones B, Santiago de Chile, Octubre 2002

Dealing with the past, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa Published by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town, 1994
Guatemala: Thinking about the Unthinkable the Association of Artists for Guatemala, 1999
Justice and Reconciliation after the violence Andrew Rigby, UK Lynne Rienner Publishers, inc, 2001
No Future Without Forgiveness D.Tutu, London, Rider, Random House, 1999
Past imperfect, Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland and Societies in Transition INCORE, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1998
State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, by Elizabeth Jelin, Latin American Bureau, London UK, 2003
The Lugano Report, on preserving capitalism in the Twenty-first century Susan George, Pluto Press 1999
Truth F. Fernández-Armesto, London, Bantam Press, 1997
Truths & Lies J. Eldestein, London, Granta Publications, 2001
Unfinished Business. State Killings and the Quest for Truth Bill Rolston, BTP Publications Ltd, Belfast, 2000
Unfinished business T. Bell, South Africa Red Works, 2001
Unspeakable truths, confronting State Terror and atrocity Priscilla Hayner, Routledge London, 2001

Crímenes e Impunidad, la experiencia del trabajo médico, psicológico, social y jurídico en la violación al Derecho a la Vida CODEPU-DIT-T, Serie Verdad y Justicia, Número 6, Santiago de Chile Diciembre 1996
Muerte y Desaparición Forzada en la Araucanía: Una Aproximación Etnica Pau Pérez, Roberta Bacic y Teresa Durán, Universidad católica de Temuco, Septiembre 1998
Memorias recientes de mi Pueblo 1973-1990 Araucanía Bacic, Teresa Durán, Roberto Arroyo, Pau Pérez, Temuco/Chile, Octubre 1997
Las venas abiertas de América Latina Galeano, siglo veintiuno ediciones, sa, cuadragésima edición, enero 1985

www.healingthroughremembering.org (Northern Ireland, Healing Through Remebering Project and its Report)
wri-irg.org/dealpast.htm (multilingual index page)
www.legacy-project.org/about/index.html global exchange on the enduring consequences of the many historical tragedies of the 20th century.
www.derechoschile.com/derechos/chrono_eng.html
provides a general overview of the period beginning September 11, 1973 to the present.
www.menschenrechte.org
Human Rights NGO in Nuremberg in German, Spanish and English
www.ecomemoria.com (Struggle against Impunity, Chilean project)
www.memoriaviva.com (Human Rights Violations in Chile, done in London and only in Spanish)