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"Implementing Truth and Reconciliation Commission Recommendations: ComparativeLessons for South Korea"The Baldy Center for Law &#38; Social Policy at the University at Buffalo, inconjunction with the Asian Studies Program and the Buffalo Human Rights Center,invites proposals for papers on national experiences with implementation of Truthand Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommendations. We particularly invitepapers on the recently-concluded TRC process in South Korea. The TRC Koreaofficially closed its doors at the end of 2010 after more than four years ofwork, during which time it investigated approximately ten thousand reported casesof human rights violations taking place between 1910 and 1993. Much work liesahead, however, in order for the Commission’s findings to be sufficientlypublicized and its recommendations to be effectively implemented.Within this process, there is much to learn from the comparative experiences ofthe more than thirty other TRCs that have undertaken work in countries around theworld. Such Commissions have taken a diversity of forms, responded to distinctkinds of violence over distinct periods of time, and, given the diversity ofapproaches taken, had a wide variety of success rates with the implementation oftheir final recommendations. Paper proposals are sought that seek to document thereasons behind these relative success rates, explaining the distinct approachestaken to implementation, the web of actors involved in the implementationprocess, and the lessons learned about what worked, what did not work, and how,looking back, the implementation process might have been restructured to achievebetter results.The collection of these comparative reflections on implementation of TRCrecommendations is aimed at helping to inform the upcoming Korean implementationprocess.We envision publication of these papers in one or two special issues of a journalor potentially in a book. The papers would be presented in a workshop at theBaldy Center, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 15, 2011. The NewYork Conference of Asian Studies annual meeting is scheduled to begin on Friday,September 16, and workshop participants could potentially attend both events (butnote that separate registration would be required). Interested authors are askedto submit abstracts to TRCBaldyCenter@gmail.com by April 4, 2011.