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  • 4 - Truth-Telling from Below

  • from Part II - Accountability from Below
  • Leigh A. Payne, University of Oxford, Gabriel Pereira, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
  • Book:
    Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
    Published online:
    10 April 2020
    Print publication:
    30 April 2020, pp 165-213

  • Summary

    There is an assumption that truth commissions have not taken on corporations for their complicity in past human rights abuses. The aim of this chapter is to expose the truths about corporate complicity hidden in truth commissions’ reports. It analyzes truth commissions’ potential as a non-judicial transitional justice corporate accountability mechanism. It considers models that truth-gathering instruments might incorporate in future efforts at corporate accountability.

    The chapter begins with an analysis of truth commissions’ efforts to unveil the story of corporate complicity in past violence. It challenges the notion that economic actors were peripheral to, or unwilling partners in, authoritarian state and armed conflict human rights abuses. Itmagnifies the details of these truths that have been overlooked. It then attempt to explain how the truth about corporate complicity made it into these reports, drawing on our Archimedes’ Lever analogy. In the conclusion, it explores strategies to promote corporate accountability through new truth-gathering processes.