The Limits of Truth Telling: Victim-Centrism in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
Truth commissions can be seen, not only as venues for addressing the worst abuses of states in a search for […]
Ronald Niezen
Ronald Niezen is the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the faculties of Law and Arts at McGill University. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University (1987), with a thesis on Islamic reform in West Africa. He has also conducted research in Aboriginal communities in northern Canada and on the international movement of indigenous peoples. His books include: The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Difference (University of California Press 2003), Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law (Cambridge University Press 2010), and Truth and Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools (University of Toronto Press 2013).