Brazilian Truth Commission

Nina Schneider is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Cooperation Research/KHK at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She is the author of Brazilian Propaganda: Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime (2014) and co-editor of Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America: A Janus-Faced Paradigm? (2015).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Brazilian Truth Commission in Local, National and Global PerspectiveNina SchneiderPART I: THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TRUTH COMMISSIONSection 1: Emergence and ContextChapter 1. Dear Madame President: A Never-delivered Speech and a Never-ending StoryVera PaivaChapter 2. The Public Prosecutors’ Office of Sao Paulo and the Legacy of the Dictatorship: A Brief Report on Activities Prior to the Truth CommissionEugenia GonzagaChapter 3. The Censorship of History and Fact-Finding in Brazil (1945−2015)Antoon De BaetsChapter 4. Democratic Transition and Conciliation: Human Rights and the Legacy of the Dictatorship in BrazilJanaina de Almeida TelesSection 2: Novelties of the Brazilian Model: Local Committees and Corporate ComplicityChapter 5. The National Truth Commission (NTC): Truth and ResponsibilityCarolina de Campos Melo and Andre Saboia MartinsChapter 6. Repression, Resistance and the intergenerational Dialogue: Establishing a Truth Commission at the University of BrasíliaJose Otavio Nogueira Guimarães and Cristiano Paixao PaixãoChapter 7. Truth Commissions in the Digital Age: An Analysis of the Brazilian CaseAna MigowskiChapter 8. Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian DictatorshipLeigh A. PayneChapter 9. Volkswagen do Brasil During the Military Dictatorship: An Economic and Political AssessmentChristopher KopperSection 3: First Assessments of Brazil’s National Truth CommissionChapter 10. The Outcomes of the Brazilian Truth Commission: Successes and Failures in a Lengthy Transitional Justice ProcessMarlon WeichertChapter 11. The Struggle for the Voice of the Victims in the National Truth Commission (Brazil): Memories and Truth yesterday and todaySan Romanelli AssumpçãoChapter 12. ‘Nunca Mais’: Lessons from Brazil’s Dictatorial PastGisele Iecker de AlmeidaPART II: TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN CONTEXT: COMPARING LATIN AMERICASection 4: Comparing Specific Truth CommissionsChapter 13. Truth Commissions and their Archives in El Salvador, Peru, and BrazilAnn SchneiderChapter 14. Memory, Truth, and Auto-Fiction in the Recent Latin American NovelJobst WelgePART III: TRUTH COMMISSIONS BETWEEN THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCALSection 5. Truth Commissions’ Worldwide Dispersion and FunctionChapter 15. Reconfigurations of Transitional Justice in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings Global, Regional and Local DevelopmentsFatima KastnerChapter 16. Truth Commissions: A Bottom Up Approach to Institution BuildingAnja MihrAfterwordNina SchneiderAppendix I: List of Selected Local Truth Commissions in Brazil by Region and StateAppendix II: Selected List of Brazilian Online Resources (Alphabetical Order)Appendix III: Photos from The Brazilian Truth CommissionIndex

"This is a very timely and relevant volume that gives an extraordinarily broad overview of the Brazilian Truth Commissions and their broader political and social context. Particularly exciting are the rich insights the volume yields into the complex and ambiguous interactions between the National Truth Commission in Brazil and the many local truth commissions that were created parallel to it." Berber Bevernage, Ghent University