Truth commissions are widely seen as important peacebuilding tools partially because they issue recommendations that seek to prompt further justice initiatives to address past abuses and promote institutional reforms that encourage non-repetition. Yet, despite growing interest in truth commissions among academics, policymakers, and activists, little attention has been paid to the recommendations that they outline in their final reports. In this article, we examine the factors that shape whether and when truth commission recommendations are enacted. Thus, we seek to explain not only whether recommendations are implemented, but also how quickly they are implemented. We use survival analysis to test the effects of a range of political and economic country-level variables, commission-specific qualities, and recommendation characteristics on the implementation record of nearly 700 recommendations formulated by ten Latin American truth commissions that operated between 1984 and 2014. The analysis yields interesting results, including that implementation proceeds more quickly in wealthier countries and when recommendations are issued by commissions created immediately after transitions, when the transitions occurred in which one side was victorious, and when commissions are created by an executive order. Moreover, recommendations that are directed towards the past are implemented more slowly than future-oriented measures.
El presente artículo pretende examinar la formulación y medir el nivel de implementación de las recomendaciones de la Comisión de la Verdad respecto a las ff. aa. y cuerpos de seguridad. A su vez, se presenta como una estrategia para abordar el análisis de la formulación e implementación de las recomendaciones, a través de una selección de casos y de observaciones coherente con la finalidad de que tanto los estudios cuantitativos como los cualitativos sean precisos a la hora de abordar una temática poliédrica y compleja. Para la realización de este estudio se tomarán como referencia las bases de datos creadas en el proyecto Beyond Words: Implementing Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations (Elin Skaar- Michelsen Institute 2014-2017).
El trabajo de coordinación de Guillermo Mira y Fernando Pedrosa constituye un esfuerzo por mostrar al investigador los sujetos que presentan nuevas ventanas de oportunidad, para la realización de una investigación original, innovadora y de interés. De esta manera, presentan al lector un libro compuesto por un conjunto de artículos a caballo, en muchos casos, entre la Historia y las distintas ramas de las Ciencias Sociales, que presentan estudios sobre las distintas realidades de América Latina. En su mayoría, resulta un esfuerzo entre investigadores con el sello de dos universidades:
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