Crafting a “Right to Truth” in International Law: Converging Mobilizations, Diverging Agendas?
This genealogy of the “right to truth” explores the ambivalence of the construction of this new concept in international legal discourse. It argues that although the “right to truth” has developed at the cornerstone of several mobilizations, its contours remain evasive due to the diversity of their...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Français |
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Champ pénal/Penal field
2016
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | This genealogy of the “right to truth” explores the ambivalence of the construction of this new concept in international legal discourse. It argues that although the “right to truth” has developed at the cornerstone of several mobilizations, its contours remain evasive due to the diversity of their interests and agendas. The paper highlights how various activists mobilize a “right to truth” as a resource to reform international law and how, in doing so, they advocate for different visions which reinforce or undermine each other. The strength of the “right to truth” concept thus derives from its capacity to accommodate a plurality of causes, but this may also turn into a limit given the diversity of truth entrepreneurs involved in its normalization. Although competing visions of the “right to truth” are presently celebrated as “complementary” in international discourse, the advent of this multifaceted legal category conceals a range of conflicts around conceptions of truth, justice and more generally, the social and political priorities given to the treatment of mass atrocities. |
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