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The Human Rights Approach of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission

In this section, I consider the human rights approach of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission. During 16 months of ethnographic research in Honiara and the Marau Sounds area, I conducted 70 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with participants regarding the topics of human rights, suffering, truth telling, and injustice. My interviewees were drawn from a broad cross-section of society, from government and NGO employees, church and customary leaders, TRC commissioners, researchers, and counsellors to victims of human rights abuses and those who had participated in the conflict. My research uncovered some interesting inconsistencies in the work of the TRC, suggesting an element of confusion in the multiplicity of approaches used. In its attempts to be all things to all people, the TRC spoke both global and local lexicons of injustice and suffering, often paying insufficient attention to potential fissures between them.

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Subjectivities of Suffering: Human Rights in the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Claire Cronin Introduction Truth commissions, like other methods of transitional justice, are grounded in internationally accepted normative assumptions about the nature of human suffering and injustice. Truth (and reconciliation) commissions, often referred to as TRCs, are established...
(Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands)
The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: Forgiving the Perpetrators, Forgetting the Victims?
Renee Jeffery On 27 April 2013, the Right Reverend Dr Terry Brown released via the internet an as yet unauthorised version of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Final Report. The report, which had been in the hands of the Solomon Islands Government since February...
(Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands)
Documenting Women’s Experiences of Conflict and Sexual Violence: On the Ground with the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Louise Vella The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was the first truth commission in the Pacific region. It was established by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 20081 with a mandate to ‘promote national unity and reconciliation’ following the...
(Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands)
Truth (and Reconciliation) Commissions and Human Rights
In many ways, truth and reconciliation commissions are the hallmark of transitional justice: Geoffrey Robertson, for example, considers TRCs and transitional justice as entirely separate from the punitive strategies of international criminal law (Robertson 2000). The first transitional justice truth...
(Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands
Long Name: Solomon Islands Location: Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea Area: 10,985 sq. mi. (28,450 sq. km) Climate: tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather Terrain: mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls Population: 581,318 Population...
(The handy geography answer book)
Beekeeping as Pro-forest Income Diversification in Solomon Islands
Wilko Bosma, Stephen Suti and Payton Deeks Forests of Solomon Islands Some 76% of Solomon Islands is covered by tropical rainforest, one of the highest in the Pacific. The forests are very rich in commercial tree species (Pauku 2009). The forest ecosystems has been recognized as one of...
(Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life)
Forests of Solomon Islands
Some 76% of Solomon Islands is covered by tropical rainforest, one of the highest in the Pacific. The forests are very rich in commercial tree species (Pauku 2009). The forest ecosystems has been recognized as one of the “Global 200” eco-regions for conservation due to its biodiversity (Olson and...
(Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life)
Beekeeping in Solomon Islands
In Solomon Islands beekeeping with European honeybees (Apismellifera) began in the early 1960s and currently beekeeping takes place in rural areas of all the country’s nine provinces (Ramoiau 1999). Beekeeping remains a small-scale activity in Solomon Islands. Only a few commercial beekeepers...
(Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life)
Reconciliation and the Rule of Law in the Solomon Islands
Rende Jeffery ‘[L]aw and order is here but peace is not in our hearts.’ Parts of this chapter have previously appeared in Renee Jeffery, ‘Enduring Tensions:Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific’, Pacific Review (available on pre-view, 2013);Statement of Solomon Islander, Honiara,...
(Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific)