DDRO 25A15 - Truth in Transition and Human Rights

This course will explore the right to truth from an interdisciplinary perspective. It invites students to critically engage with truth as a right in transitional justice scenarios, focusing on the exploration of the construction of truth through law and its relation to justice. Through the foundational tenets of memory, reconciliation and punishment, the course enquires into the assumed exceptionality of the right to truth in transitions, examining if and how it operates in ordinary settings. Simultaneously, the course offers an overarching view of the consolidation of the right to truth in the framework of international human rights, and the specific obligations it entails for states. Drawing on a broad variety of cases of ongoing and past transitional justice processes in the Global South, the course intends to foster challenging and critical perspectives on the right to truth as a legal claim.

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This course is structured around the notion of collective and autonomous learning. This means that lectures will always include discussions in class that foster thinking collectively about the main ideas, concepts and themes of each session.

• Essay in pairs (20%). Due date: Week 4, 800-1000 word limit.
• Mid Term Exam 30%
• Participation and engagement 10%
• Final Exam 40%