Discussing the Potential Role of Truth Commissions in Assessing Reparations for War-Affected Children
Discussing the Potential Role of Truth Commissions in Assessing Reparations for War-Affected Children

Summary/Abstract: Truth Commissions (TCs) have often been the subject of studies focused on transitional justice, probably because, amongst all the other possible mechanisms, they seem to best represent the challenges and the difficulties that a post-conflict state has to deal with during the transition towards democracy and reconciliation. Besides their well-known role as truth-finding bodies, TCs can be instrumental in the drafting of national reparations programmes. The reports launched in the past years by the six TCs considered in the present contribution identified children as beneficiaries of reparative measures, both symbolic and material. Therefore, the aim of this article is to understand how the issue of reparations for children has been addressed so far. In particular it will define the key terms adopted, it will dwell on children‘s right to participation in all the matters affecting them, including the activities carried on by the TCs and, of course, it will discuss if and to what extent children‘s right to reparation has been recognised and triggered.

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