A Canadian Psychology Task Force Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: Summary and Reflections

2022 ◽  
pp. 303-317
Author(s):  
Christine Maybee ◽  
Fern Stockdale Winder ◽  
David Danto
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Force Response ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Commission Report

Child soldiering on trial: an interdisciplinary analysis of responsibility in the Lord's Resistance Army

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Nicole Souris
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Lord's Resistance Army ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Lord’S Resistance Army ◽  
Child Soldiering

‘How can we tell what happened to us? There are no words to describe what we have witnessed. What we saw, what we heard, what we did, and how it changed our lives, is beyond measure. We were murdered, raped, amputated, tortured, mutilated, beaten, enslaved and forced to commit terrible crimes.’ (Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report for the Children of Sierra Leone)

scholarly journals Collaborative Indigenous Knowledge Research: Acknowledging and Reclaiming Traditional Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Georgina Martin
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Commission Report

This article follows on the heels of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report to redress the residue of residential schools by enhancing harmony between Indigenous communities and universities. My collaborative community-based Indigenous Knowledge(IK) research attended to the struggle for Secwepemc reclamation, revitalization, and renewal of culture, language, and land. An IK theoretical framework initiated con dence to articulate a Secwepemc worldview within a Eurocentric research context especially while responding to the deeply personal and sensitive topics of cultural identity and language. The aim of knowledge creation is to work from an Indigenous research paradigm through self-location, storytelling, and community relevant protocols.

scholarly journals Mobilizing Reconciliation: Implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report for Physiotherapy in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Gasparelli ◽  
Hilary Crowley ◽  
Moni Fricke ◽  
Brooke McKenzie ◽  
Sarah Oosman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Commission Report

The Passion of Guatemala

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-407
Author(s):  
Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Commission Report

This article examines the Roman Catholic concepts, rhetoric, and images that have helped shape histories of progress in postwar Guatemala. The specific interest here is in the Roman Catholic Church’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and the progress narratives that this report helps to perpetuate. Titled Never Again (1998), the report documents Guatemala’s genocidal civil war by paralleling Guatemala’s passion to Christ’s passion. And while much of this article contributes to an ever-growing critique of progress narratives, of modernity itself, most compelling for this reflection are the spatial politics that appear as the Church’s progressive history proves increasingly uninformed (at best) and irrelevant (at worst).

Using African Truth and Reconciliation Commission documentation for truth telling and reconciliation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Proscovia Svärd
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commissions ◽  
Reconciliation Process

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are established to document violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in post-conflict societies. The intent is to excavate the truth to avoid political speculations and create an understanding of the nature of the conflict. The documentation hence results in a common narrative which aims to facilitate reconciliation to avoid regression to conflict. TRCs therefore do a tremendous job and create compound documentation that includes written statements, interviews, live public testimonies of witnesses and they also publish final reports based on the accumulated materials. At the end of their mission, TRCs recommend the optimal use of their documentation since it is of paramount importance to the reconciliation process. Despite this ambition, the TRCs’ documentation is often politicized and out of reach for the victims and the post-conflict societies at large. The TRCs’ documentation is instead poorly diffused into the post conflict societies and their findings are not effectively disseminated and used.

The Triumph of Olemaun: Survivance, Empathic Unsettlement, and Restorying the History of Canadian Residential Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Anah-Jayne Markland
Keyword(s):  
Residential Schools ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Mandatory Education ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Age Appropriate

The ignorance of many Canadians regarding residential schools and their traumatic legacy is emphasised in the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as a foundational obstacle to achieving reconciliation. Many of the TRC's calls to action involve education that dispels and corrects this ignorance, and the commission demands ‘age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal peoples' historical and contemporary contributions to Canada’ to be made ‘a mandatory education requirement for Kindergarten to Grade Twelve students’ (Calls to Action 62.i). How to incorporate the history of residential schools in kindergarten and early elementary curricula has been much discussed, and one tool gaining traction is Indigenous-authored picturebooks about Canadian residential schools. This article conducts a close reading of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton's picturebook When I Was Eight (2013). The picturebook gathers Indigenous and settler children together to contest master settler narratives regarding the history of residential schools. Using Gerald Vizenor's concept of ‘survivance’ and Dominick LaCapra's notion of ‘empathic unsettlement’, the article argues that picturebooks work to unsettle young readers empathetically as part of restorying settler myths about residential schools and implicating young readers in the work of reconciliation.

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