This chapter explores the pivotal role of truth in transitional justice, focusing on the right to truth as a fundamental aspect of accountability for human rights violations. It examines the processes by which historical facts are uncovered, connecting the recovery of truth to broader objectives like justice, reconciliation, and non-repetition. The chapter delves into the complex relationship between state actors, private corporations—particularly in the technology sector—and their involvement in suppressing human rights. Emphasis is placed on the role of technology in both enhancing and complicating truth recovery, highlighting how digital surveillance tools can either facilitate investigations or obstruct justice. The chapter also analyzes archives and truth commissions as essential yet contested mechanisms for revealing the truth, considering the challenges posed by surveillance capitalism and the influence of corporate interests on transitional justice efforts in the digital age.

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Truth

  • Sebastian Smart

摘要

This chapter explores the pivotal role of truth in transitional justice, focusing on the right to truth as a fundamental aspect of accountability for human rights violations. It examines the processes by which historical facts are uncovered, connecting the recovery of truth to broader objectives like justice, reconciliation, and non-repetition. The chapter delves into the complex relationship between state actors, private corporations—particularly in the technology sector—and their involvement in suppressing human rights. Emphasis is placed on the role of technology in both enhancing and complicating truth recovery, highlighting how digital surveillance tools can either facilitate investigations or obstruct justice. The chapter also analyzes archives and truth commissions as essential yet contested mechanisms for revealing the truth, considering the challenges posed by surveillance capitalism and the influence of corporate interests on transitional justice efforts in the digital age.