TY - BOOK AU - Wachira, George AU - Kamungi,Prisca AU - Sillah,Kalie TI - Stretching the Truth: the uncertain promise of TRCs in Africa's transitional justice SN - 9789966173058 AV - JC599.A36 P43 2010 U1 - 303.69096 22 PY - 2014/// CY - Nairobi PB - National peace institute Africa(NPI-Africa) KW - Transitional justice KW - Africa KW - Reconciliation KW - Political aspects KW - Truth commissions KW - War crime trials N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The politics of transitional justice -- Inclusive justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions -- Prosecute or pardon? Between truth commissions and war crimes trials -- Gender and truth reconciliation commissions: comparative reflections -- Transitional justice, democratisation and the rule of law -- South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission from a global perspective -- Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a peacebuilding perspective -- Peace versus justice? A view from Nigeria -- A path to peace and justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in retrospect -- Peace and justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone compared -- Sierra Leone's 'not-so' special court -- Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and international politics -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda: reconciling for acquitted -- The politics of peace, justice and healing in post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa -- Indigenous justice or political instrument? The modern Gacaca courts of Rwanda -- The International Criminal Court African experiment: the Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The International Criminal Court in Darfur ER -