truth and reconciliation commission A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state act ...

is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government or other actors, in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth and Reconciliation Commission may also refer to:

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Burundi) Burundi's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) (French: ''Commission vérité et réconciliation'', CVR) is a truth and reconciliation commission established in the African country of Burundi to investigate crimes during ethnic conflict which ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC; french: Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada []) was a truth and reconciliation commission active in Canada from 2008 to 2015, organized by the parties of the Indian Reside ...

*National Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Chile, which produced the

Rettig Report The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by Chilean President Patricio Aylwin (from the ''Concertación'') detailing human rights abuses resulting in dea ...

(1991) * Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Ivory Coast) * Truth and Reconciliation Commission (DRC), Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Germany) Two years after German reunification, the Commission of Inquiry for the Assessment of History and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany, which was a truth commission that lasted from 1992 to 1994, was established by the German government ...

* Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Honduras) *

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia) The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a Parliament-enacted organization created in May 2005 under the Transitional Government. The Commission worked throughout the first mandate of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after her election as Pr ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Nepal) The Commission of Inquiry to Locate the Persons Disappeared during the Panchayat Period (1990–1991) is a truth commission established in Nepal in 1990 after the end of the autocratic Panchayat Regime by the first post-Panchayat Prime Minister Kri ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Norway) The Commission to Investigate the Norwegianisation Policy and Injustice Against the Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finnish Peoples (The Truth and Reconciliation Commission) is a Norway, Norwegian state commission established by the Storting in 2018. It is ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru) Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC; es, Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, CVR) (13 July 2001 – 28 August 2003) was a truth and reconciliation commission established by President Alejandro Toledo to investigate the human righ ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Sierra Leone) The Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a truth commission created as part of the Lomé Peace Accord, which ended the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War, civil war conflict in Sierra Leone in July 1999. Background and creation The ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Solomon Islands) The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a commission officially established by the government of Solomon Islands in September 2008. It has been formed to investigate the causes of the ethnic violence that gripped Solomon ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid. Authorised by Nelson Mandela and chaired by Desmond Tutu, the commission invited witnesses ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Korea) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( ko, 진실·화해를위한과거사정리위원회), established on December 1, 2005, is a South Korean governmental body responsible for investigating incidents in Korean history which occurred from ...

Other places

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2004 based on the violent events of November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina. On that date, the Communist Workers' Party (United States), Communist Workers Party (CWP) led b ...

, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States *

Maine Wabanaki-State Truth and Reconciliation Commission The Maine Wabanaki Confederacy, Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and reconciliation commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also known as the MWTRC was a commission looking at events relating to Wabanaki children and families from 1978, w ...

, Maine, United States

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