Bibliographies on Human Rights: Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley

War Crimes/Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Truth and Reconciliation in Latin America

Bibliography compiled by Molly Ryan
Spring, 1998


A

Acuna, CH et al. (1995). Juicio castigos y memorias. Derechos humanos y justicia en la politica Argentina. Buenos Aires.

---------------------(1993). Human Rights and Civil-Military tensions in the Argentine Transition. CEDES, Buenos Aires.

Aguero, F. (1993). Chile: South America's Success Story? Current History, March 130-35.

Alfonsin, Raul (1993). "Never Again" in Argentina. Journal of Democracy, 4(1):15-19.

Amnesty International (1990). El Salvador. Peace Without Justice. AI, London.

------------------------------(1987). Argentina. Report of the Trial of the Former Junta Members 1985. AI, London.

------------------------(1995). Argentina. The Right to the Full Truth. AI, London.

Angell, Alan (1993). The Transition to Democracy in Chile. A Model or an Exceptional Case? Parliamentary Affairs. Journal of Comparative Politics, 46(4):563-578.

Arnson, Cynthia (1993). El Salvador, Accountability and Human Rights: The Report of the UN Commission on the Truth for El Salvador. America's Watch, NY.


B

Barahona de Brito, Alexandra (1993). Truth and Justice in the Consolidation of Democracy in Chile and Uruguay. Comparative Politics, 46(4):579-593.

Bergalli, Roberto (1988). El Olvido Como Ideologia del Discurso Juridico-Penal. Doctrina Penal, 11(427).

Binford, Leigh (1996). The El Mozote Massacre. Anthropology and Human Rights, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Brysk, Alison (1994). The Politics of Measurement: The Contested Count of the Disappeared in Argentina. Human Rights Quarterly, 16:676.

Brysk, Alison (1994). The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina. Protest, Change and Democratization. Stanford University Press.

------------------(1993). From Above and Below. Social Movements, the International System, and Human Rights in Argentina. Comparative Political Studies, 26(3):259-285.

Burgenthal, Thomas (1994). The United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador. Vanderbilt Journal of International Law, 27.


C

Cardenal, Rodolfo (1992). Justice in Post-Civil War El Salvador: The Role of the Truth Commission. Journal of Third World Studies, 9(fall 1992):314.

Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation Report (1993). trans. by Phillip Berryman. Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame University.

Ciancaglini, Sergio & Granovsky, Martin (1995). Nada mas que la verdad. El juicio a las juntas. La guerra sucia desde al golpe hasta las autocriticas militares. Buenos Aires.

Correa, Jorge(1992). Dealing with Past Human Rights Violations: The Chilean Case After Dictatorship. Notre Dame Law Review, 67(1992):1457.

Crawford, Kathryn Lee (1990). Dealing with Past Human Rights Violations. The Chilean Case After Dictatorship. Notre Dame Law Review, 67(5):1455-1494.


D

Davidson, Scott (1992). The Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Dartmouth, Aldershot.

De Brito, AB Truth and justice in the consolidation of democracy in Chile and Uruguay. Parliamentary Affairs, 46(4):579.

Di Paolantonio, Mario (1997). Argentina after the "Dirty War": Reading the Limits of National Reconciliation. Alternatives, 22: 433-465.

Dooner, Patricio (1989). Iglesia, Reconciliacion y democracia. Santiago.

Dubois, L. (1990). Torture and Construction of an Enemy. The Example of Argentina 1976-1983. Dialectical Anthropology, 15(4):317-328.


E

Ensalaco, Mark (1994). Truth Commissions for Chile and El Salvador: A Report and Assessment. Human Rights Quarterly, 16:656.

--------------------(1995). Military Perogatives and the Stalemate of Chilean Civil-Military Relations. Armed Forces and Society, 21(2):255-270.

Escobar, Arturo & Sonia Alvarez eds (1992). The Making of Social Movements in Latin America. Identity, Strategy and Democracy. Westview Press, Boulder.


F

Fernandois, Joaquin and Michael Morris (1995). Democracy in Chile. Transition and Consolidation, 1987-2000. Conflict Studies, 279, 1-26.

Fisher, Jo (1989). Mothers of the Disappeared. South End, Boston.

-------------(1993). Out of the Shadows. Women, Resistence and Politics in South America. Latin American Bureau, London.


G

Garreton, Merino and Manuel Antonio (1993). Cultura, Autoritarismo y redemocratizacion en Chile. Santiago.

Garro, Alejandro (1983). The role of the Argentine judiciary in controlling governmental action under a state of siege. Human Rights Law Journal. 4(3):311-336.

-------------------and Henry Dahl (1987). Legal accountability for human rights violations in Argentina: One step forward and two steps backward. Human Rights Law Journal, 8, 284-344.

Gray, Ewan (1986). Human Rights Convictions of Former Argentine Military Commanders. Harvard International Law Journal, 27, 688.

Grossman, Claudio (1992). Disappearances in Honduras: The Need for Direct Victim Representation in Human Rights Litigation. Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 15(3):363-391.

Guest, Ian (1990). Behind the Disappearances. Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the UN. University of Penn., Philadelphia.


H

Hale, Charles (1997). Consciousness, Violence, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala. Current Anthropology, 38(5):817.

Harper, Charles ed. (1996). Impunity: An ethical perspectiv: Six Case Studies from Latin America. Geneva, World Council of Churches.

Holiday, David (1993). Building Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador. Journal of International Affairs. 46(2):415-438.

Hollander, Nancy Caro (1997). Love in a Time of Hate. Liberation Psychology in Latin America.Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick.

Human Rights Watch(1994). Chile Unsettled Business: Human Rights in Chile at the start of the Frei Presidency. Human Rights Watch Americas, 6(May 1994):4.

-------------------(1987). Truth and Partial Justice in Argentina. NY.

------------------(1988). Chile: Human Rights and the Plebiscite. NY.

-----------------(1989). Challenging Impunity. The Ley de Caducidad and the Referendum in Uruguay. NY.

------------------(1991). Human Rights and the 'Politics of Agreements'. Chile during President Alwyn's First Year. NY.

------------------(1991). Truth and Partial Justice in Argentina. An Update. NY.

-------------------(1992). Chile- The struggle for Truth and Justice for Past Human Rights Violations. NY.

-----------------(1992). El Salvador. Peace and Human Rights. NY.

------------------(1993). Bolivia. The Trial of Responsibilities. NY.

------------------(1994). Chile. Unsettled Business. Human Rights in Chile at the Start of the Free Presidency. NY.

Hunter, Wend (1995). Politicians Against Soldiers. Contesting the Military in Post Authoritarian Brazil. Comparative Politics, 27(4):425-444.


J

Jelin, Elizabeth (1994). The Politics of Memory. The Human Rights Movement and the Construction of Democracy in Argentina. Latin American Perspectives, 21(81):38-58.

--------------------and Eric Hershberg (1996). Constructing Democracy. Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America. Westview Press, Boulder.


K

Kaufman, Edy (1989). Jewish Victims of Repression in Argentina under Military Rule (1976-1983). Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 4(4):479.


L

Langan, Michael (1991). Argentine President Menem's first pardons. A comparative analysis of coverage by Buenos Aires' Leading Dailies.Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 16(31):145-156.

Lewis, Colin & Torrents, Nissa eds (1993). Argentina in the Crisis Years, 1983-1990. From Alfonsin to Menem. London.

Loveman, Brian (1994). "Protected democracies" and military guardianship. Political Transitions in Latin America 1978-1993. Journal of Interamerican studies and World Affairs, 36(2):105-187.

Luis, Jose-Colodrero and Diaz-Abella, Monica (1987). Punto Final. Amnistia o voluntad popular. Buenes Aires.

Lutz, EL (1992). State-sponsored Abductions. the Human Rights Ramifications of Machian Alvarez. World Policy Journal, 9(4):687-703.


M

MacSherry, J Patrice (1992). Military Power, Impunity and State-Society Change in Latin America. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 25(3):463-488.

Madres de Plaza de Mayo (1996). No truth, no justice. Index on Censorship. 5, 1996:132.

Malamud-Goti, Jaime (1994). Human Rights Abuses in Fledgling Democracies: The Role of Discretion. In Irwin Stotzky, ed. Transitions to Democracy: The Role of the Judiciary.

--------------------(1996). Game Without End: Terror, Justice and the Democratic Transition in Argentina.

Malin, Andrea (1994). Mothers who won't disappear. Human Rights Quarterly, 16(2):187-213.

Manguel, Alberto (1996). Argentina: memory and forgetting. Index on Censorship 5, 1996:123.

Marcus, George (1994). The Official Story: Response to Julie Taylor. in Body Politics , Michael Ryan & Avery Gordon, eds.

Meacham, Carl (1994). The Role of the Chilean Catholic Church in the new Chilean Democracy. Journal of Church and State. 36(2):277-300.

Mellibovsky, Matilde (1997). Circle of Love Over Death. Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Curbstone Press, Conn.

Mignone, Emilio; Cynthia Estlund and Samuel Issacharoff (1984). Dictatorship on Trial:Prosecution of Human Rights Violations in Argentina. Yale Journal of International Law, 10(fall):118-50.

Moore, John Jr. (1991) Problems with Forgiveness: Granting amnesty under the Arias Plan in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Stanford Law Review, 43(3):733-777.

Moreno Ocampo, Luis (1990). The Nuremberg Parallel in Argentina. New York Journal of International and Comparative Law.11(1990):357.


N

Neier, Aryeh (1990). What Should be Done about the Guilty?New York Review of Books. Feb. 1, 1990:32.

Nino, Carlo (1991). The Duty to Punish Past Abuses of Human Rights Put Into Context: The Case of Argentina. The Yale Law Journal, 100:2619.


O

Oppenheim, Lois Hecht (1991). Redemocratisation in Latin America. Civilian Agenda and Military Legacy in Chile. Review of Latin American Studies, 4(2):184-206.

------------------------(1993). Politics in Chile. Democracy, Authoritarianism and the Search of Development. Boulder.

Osiel, Mark (1986). The Making of Human Rights Policy in Argentina: The Impact of Ideas and Interests on a Legal Conflict.Journal of Latin American Studies, 18:135-80.

---------------(1995). Dialogue with Dictators: Judicial Resistance in Argentina and Brazil. Law and Social Inquiry, 20(481).

Overhorn (1995). Reconstituting Civil Society in Chile.


P

Panizza, F. (1995). Human Rights in the Processes of Transition and Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America. Political Studies, 43:168-188.

Perelli, Carina (1994). Memoria de Sangre: Fear, Hope, and Disenchantment in Argentina. In Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

------------------(1992). Settling Accounts with Blood Memory: The Case of Argentina.Social Research, 59:415-51.

Pion-Berlin, David (1993). To Prosecute or to Pardon? Human Rights Decisions in the Latin American Southern Cone. Human Rights Quarterly, 15:105-130.

------------------(1991). Between confrontation and accomodation: Military and government policy in democratic Argentina. Journal of Latin American Studies, 23(3):543-571.

------------------(1991). Of victims and executioners: Argentine state terror, 1975-1979. International Studies Quarterly, 35(1):63.

Popkin, Margaret and Naomi Roht-Arriaza (1995). Truth as Justice: Investigatory Commissions in Latin America. Law and Social Inquiry, 20(1):79-117.


Q

Quinn, Robert J (1994). Will the rule of law end? Challenging Grants of Amnesty for the Human Rights Violations of a Prior Regime. Chile's New Model. Fordham Law Review, 62(4):905-960.


R

Ramshaw, Paul and Toms Steers eds. (1987). New York War Crimes Tribunal on Central America and the Caribbean. (1984). Intervetnion on Trial. Praeger, NY.

Roberts, Kenneth Morgan (1992). In Search of a New Identity. Dictatorship, Democracy and the Evolution of the Left in Chile and Peru. U of Mich., Ann Arbor.

Rogers, (1989). Argentina's Obligation to Prosecute Military Officials for Torture. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 20:259.


S

Sacks, KB (1995). Hear my Testimony. Tula, Maria Teresa. Human Rights Activist of El Salvador.

Santiago Nino, Carlos (1996). Radical Evil on Trial. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Scharf, Michael (1996). Swapping amnesty for peace: Was there a duty to prosecute international crimes in Haiti? Texas International Law Journal, 31(1):1-41.

Seelmann, G. (1991). The Position of the Chilean Medical Association with Respect to Torture as an Instrument of Political Repression. Journal of Medical Ethics, 17(4):33-34.

Servicio Paz Y Justicia (1989). Uruguay. Nunca Mas. Human Rights Violations, 1972- 1985. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

Sieder, R. (1996). Impunity in Latin America. Institute of Latin American Studies, London.

Silva, Patricio (1993). State, Politics and the Idea of Social Justice in Chile. Development and Change, 24, 465-486.

Soza, Raul (1996). Chile: Breaking the Human Link: the medico-psychiatric view of impunity. In World Council of Churches: Impunity: an Ethical Perspective. WCC Pubs, Genevea.

Speck, Paula K. (1987). The Trial of the Argentine Juntas. University of Miami Inter- American Law Review, 18(491).

Spooner, Mary Helen (1994). Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile. University of California Press, Berkeley.


T

Taylor, Diana (1997). Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in the Argentine "Dirty War". Duke University Press, Durham.

Taylor, Julie (1994). Body Memories: Aide Memoires and Collective Amnesia in the Wake of Argentine Terror. In Body Politics: Disease, Desire, and the Family, Michael Ryan & Avery Gordon, eds.

Tulchin, Joseph ed. (1993). From Dictatorship to Democracy. Rebuilding Political Consensus in Chile. Boulder, Westview.


U

UN Security Council (1993). From Madness to Hope. The 12 Year War in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador. NY, UN Doc. 2/25500.

US Congress, Committee on Foreign Affairs (1994). comparison of US Administration testimony and reports with the 1993 UN Truth Commission report on El Salvador. Congressional Sales Office, Washington.


V

Vidal, Hernan (1989). Cultura Nacional Chilena, critica literaria y derechos humanos. Minneapolis.


W

Weissbrodt, David and Paul W. Fraser (1992). Report of the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (Chile). Human Rights Quarterly, 14:601.

Weschler, Lawrence (1990). A Miracle a Universe. Settling Accounts with Torturers. Pantheon Books, NY.

Wilson, Karen (1993). Argentina's Human Rights Crisis in Transition. Human Rights, 20(3):28-29.


Z

Zagorski, Paul (1994). Civil-military relations and Argentine Democracy. The Armed Forces under the Menem Government. Armed Forces and Society, 20(3):423-437.

Zaverucha, Jorge (1993). The Degree of Military Autonomy During the Spanish, Argentine and Brazilian Transitions. Journal of Latin American Studies, 25(2):283-299.

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