Can Truth Commissions Heal the Wounds of War? Here’s What Victims Think - Peace News Network

Families not only transmit values, love and memories: they also inherit silences, fears and unresolved wounds. From clinical psychology, we observe how certain emotional patterns are repeated from generation to generation: mothers who repeat the coldness of their own mothers, absent fathers who were also ignored children, dynamics of control, dependence, guilt or overprotection that are normalized. These family wounds are often not named, but fe…

Can Truth Commissions Heal the Wounds of War? Here’s What Victims Think - Peace News Network

Truth commissions have become a hallmark of post-conflict justice — a tool used by countries emerging from violence to reckon with the past, acknowledge victims’ suffering, and lay the groundwork for peace. Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland each endured decades of internal conflict marked by mass violence, disappearances, and deep societal division. In the aftermath, […] The post Can Truth Commissions Heal the Wounds of War? Here’s What Vic…