Os objetivos da Comissão Nacional da Verdade: a busca pela verdade e a promoção da reconciliação nacional

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Antonio, Gustavo Miranda
• Orientador(a): Dimoulis, Dimitri
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Objetivos; Verdade; Reconciliação nacional; Avaliação e análise de impactos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: National Truth Commission; Objectives; Truth; National reconciliation; Evaluation and impact assessment
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/10290

The creation of the National Truth Commission represents another step in the long 'dealing with the past' process developed by the Brazilian State together with the victims of the military dictatorship, their families and the society. According to Act 12.528/2011, the main objective of the commission is to clarify the facts and circumstances of gross human rights violations that occurred during the period of time set forth in article 8 of the Transitory Constitutional Provisions Act (i.e. from September 18th, 1946, to October 5th, 1988), which is believed to ensure the effectiveness of the right to historical truth and memory, and shall promote national reconciliation. At first, this essay cares to clarify how the search for truth is related to the reconciliation goal, since one of the explicit goals of the National Truth Commission is to promote national reconciliation. To that end, it begins with a short description of the historical context of the Brazilian State’s reckoning process, concerning its past of state violence, so characteristic of a military dictatorship. Next, it will present the difficult aspects of working with concepts as complex as 'truth' and 'reconciliation', with the proposition of a meaning of national reconciliation for Brazil, taking into account a perspective that prioritizes the acknowledgment of past abuses and rebuilding of civic trust in the State. The final part of the essay addresses the issue of empirically assessing the truth commissions’ impacts, highlighting the inherent difficulties to this process and questioning the unreflective use of justifications that advocate the establishment of such mechanism.