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The United States Institute of Peace’s Truth Commissions Digital Collection is part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management. The collection contains profiles of truth commissions and substantive bodies of inquiry from nations worldwide - offering general background information on the composition of each body, links to the official legislative texts establishing such commissions, and each commission's final reports and findings.
Countries: Africa, Algeria, Asia, Brazil, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Republic of the, El Salvador, Europe, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Uganda, Uruguay
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Human Rights, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
In Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, Bertram Spector argues that the peace negotiation table is the best place to lay the groundwork for good governance.
Countries: Burundi, El Salvador, Guatemala, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Security Sector Reform/Governance
July 20, 2011
(Washington) – In a new study, “Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption” from the United States Institute of Peace, author Bertram I. Spector argues that peace and economic recovery in countries emerging from violent conflict are more likely and more durable when good governance reforms and corruption controls are included in negotiations ending the conflict.
Countries: Burundi, El Salvador, Guatemala, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Security Sector Reform/Governance
| Programs: Grant Program
This report sets out to assess the significance of the implementation of the 1992 Chapultepec Accords nearly ten years after the initiation of negotiations under United Nations auspices.
Countries: El Salvador
July 2004
Working in partnership with the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University, USIP offered a two-day seminar as part of ISIM´s training program for managers of humanitarian operations.
Countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Netherlands, United States, Zambia
| Issue Areas: Negotiation and Diplomacy, Training
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
Senior Editor, Office of Public Affairs and Communications
Truth Commission: Commission on the Truth for El Salvador
Duration: 1992 – 1993
Charter: El Salvador: Mexico Peace Agreements—Provisions Creating the Commission on Truth
Commissioners: 3
Report: Public report
In Constructing Justice and Security after War, the distinguished contributors—including scholars, criminal justice practitioners, and former senior officials of international missions—examine the experiences of countries that have recently undergone transitions from conflict with significant international involvement. The volume offers generalizations based on careful comparisons of justice and security reforms in some of the most prominent and successful cases of transitions from war of the 1990s drawn from Central America, Africa, the Balkans, and East Timor.
Countries: Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Timor Leste
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
The author examines the complex interplay among political and economic factors, the nature of the revolutionary organization, and international actors. The end of the Cold War does not mean the end of revolutionary groups, and that the United States can play an important role in determining the outcome of future confrontations.
Countries: El Salvador, Peru
Focusing on intrastate conflicts in which third parties have played prominent roles, Hampson argues that durable settlements depend on sustained third-party engagement not only during the negotiation phase but throughout the implementation process.
Countries: Angola, Cambodia, Cyprus, El Salvador, Namibia
| Issue Areas: Negotiation and Diplomacy, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
