Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions
Overview
Author Trudy Huskamp Peterson will discuss her book, Final Acts, a guide to questions of law, politics, physical preservation, and access regarding materials generated by the 20 truth commissions that have completed the work of examining and reporting on the abuses of deposed regimes. Book signing and reception to follow the event.
For background information and full text reports and mandates of truth commissions, visit the Truth Commissions Digital Collection, developed by the Jeannette Rankin Library Program.
Speakers
- Dr. Trudy Huskamp Peterson
Consulting archivist, former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar,
former Acting Archivist of the United States, and
former director of the Open Society Archives in Budapest
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