Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions
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History and Public Policy Program
Final Acts is a guide to questions of law, politics, physical preservation, and access regarding materials generated by truth commissions. For example, how do the records relate to the law that created the commission? Who owns the evidence? Are there political constraints on the preservation of, or access to, some records? Does the country have an institution professionally capable of maintaining the records? Final Acts also describes the truth commissions that have completed their work so far and the disposition, or in some cases the loss, of their records.
Author
Trudy H. Peterson
Former Public Policy Scholar;
Consulting Archivist
Consulting Archivist
History and Public Policy Program
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