The Blinders of the Movement for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation

What can be seen as a movement for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation is part of a larger movement for Human Rights and, along with the War against Impunity, a response to the atrocities caused by the perpetrators of  dictatorships, civil wars and wars. In my presentation I would like to briefly sketch out the history of this movement before critically discussing some of its key discourses, and before turning to its forms of institutionalization, such as the Truth Commissions, International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court in the Hague. I will close by asking what these discourses and institutions leave out. In a Bourdieuian fashion I will propose that we deal with an emerging social field whose construction presupposes a specific, myopic vision of the world.