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Existing Wikipedia articles on truth commissions

Wikipedia entry on Truth and reconciliation commissions

Full-length Wikipedia articles

You may not select a commission from this list for your assignment, but these articles serve as examples of full-length articles. As with all Wikipedia articles, they can be edited.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)

Argentina - National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons

Brazil - National Truth Commission

Fiji - Reconciliation and Unity Commission

The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya

Poland - Institute of National Remembrance

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Solomon Islands)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Korea)

Sri Lanka - Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission

USA - Greensboro, North Carolina TRC

Stubs and short entries

You may select one of these stubs to improve, but please consult if you wish to do one of the more developed articles (Guatemala, Morocco, Peru, Timor-Leste). (Please consult in any case, so no one duplicate the same topic as another student.)

Chile - Calum

Commission on the Truth for El Salvador

Guatemala

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia) - Gareth

Morocco

Truth Commission (Panama)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru) - Melanie

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Sierra Leone)

Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor

Indonesia–Timor Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship - Nicholas

Truth commissions with no entry on Wikipedia

Encouraged! (See Hayner for a start.) "Notability" can perhaps be established by linking from the truth commissions page.

Colombia - Erika

Ecuador

Ghana - John

Haiti - Julien

Mauritius

Paraguay

Philippines (paragraph in main truth commissions article but no separate entry) - Alayna

Togo - Joshua

Uganda

Have you heard of others?

Grading

Wikipedia essays will be graded approximately as follows:

10%: Draft summary paragraph(s) and outline for remainder of article (due week 5)
20%: First draft of full article (due week 7)
10%: Peer reviews and collaboration with classmates
10%: Presentation of work in class
50%: Quality of main Wikipedia contributions (final article due week 11), evaluated in light of reflective essay