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Truth-seeking processes allow societies to examine and come to grips with past crimes and atrocities and prevent their future repetition. Truth-seeking often occurs in societies emerging from a period of prolonged conflict or authoritarian rule.〔(The International Center for Transitional Justice's (ICTJ) Truth and Memory Page )〕 The most famous example to date is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, although many other examples also exist. Through a truth-seeking process, actors in a country are able to investigate past abuses and seek redress for victims and their families. Such investigations go beyond simply identifying guilty parties or individuals, but may investigate root causes, patterns of suffering, and social impact as well as events in individual cases, such as disappearances. By seeking to investigate such questions with a high degree of professionalism and commitment, truth-seeking processes seek to create long-lasting public impact, often through the publication of a public report. Such reporting helps expose the facts of violations and suffering, which are often otherwise denied, and minimize possibilities of revisionism in the future. Given that truth-seeking requires both considerable time and resources to properly tackle investigations and victims’ needs, local community and regional representatives, civil society organizations, NGOs and aid agencies, and governmental and judicial entities play different roles in this process. ==The Right to Truth== Many steps taken in a truth-seeking process are based on the premise of a right to truth. The right to truth is an emerging principle in customary international law. It has been recognized in the United Nations Principles on Impunity〔http://derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html〕 and subsequent UN materials, as well as by regional bodies such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and in some national courts. The right to truth entails that victims and communities affected by past crimes have the right to know the identity of suspected perpetrators consistent with the rights of the suspects.〔(ICTJ; Waldorf, Lars.(2010): "Ex-Combatants and Truth Commissions" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Truth-seeking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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