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Chile

17 years of military dictatorship in Chile caused the country to suffer large-scale systematic human rights violations. We research the country’s efforts to come to terms with its violent past and the effects of transitional justice mechanisms on democracy.

Projects

Completed projects

Oct 2014 - Dec 2017

Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions' Recommendations

Sep 2010 - Dec 2014

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience

Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

Everyday Maneuvers: Military - Civilian Relations in Latin-America and the Middle East

Sep 2009 - Dec 2010

Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America: Violations, Politics and Prosecution

Jul 2003 - Dec 2008

Accountability functions of courts

Jan 2002 - Dec 2003

Democratization and the Judiciary

Researchers

Elin Skaar

Research Professor

Publications

Blog post | 2023

Corruption is unaffordable for Latin America’s resurgent left: Democracy and lives are at stake

Aled Williams, Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado

Book Review | 2018

Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Historical Perspective ( Abingdon, Routledge, 2015) 258pp

Elin Skaar

The Irish Yearbook of International Law 2016-17

CMI Report | 2018

Comisiones de la Verdad de Chile: Verdad y Reparaciones como Política de Estado

Sol Hourcade, Federico Ghelfi, Luz Palmás Zaldua, Marcela Perelman

Edited Book | 2016

Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity towards Accountability

Elin Skaar, Jemima Garcia-Godos, and Cath Collins

CMI Insight | 2016

See you in court! Holding the military to account in Latin America

Elin Skaar

Book Chapter | 2014

La transparencia en Chile: Una mirada internacional

Aranzazu Guillan Montero

Transparencia en Chile. Logros y desafios a cinco años de vigencia

Judicial independence and human rights in Latin America: Violations, politics and prosecution

Elin Skaar

The legal foundations of inequality. Constitutionalism in the Americas 1776-1860

Roberto Gargarella

Edited Book | 2008

Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries

Deborah Bräutigam, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Mick Moore (Eds.)

Master's Thesis | 2006

The Judicial Protection of Tolerance in Chile and Argentina. Explaining Freedom of Expression Jurisprudence, 1990-2003

Trine Lauvsnes

Los Fundamentos Legales de la Desigualdad. El Constitucionalismo en America (1776-1860)

Roberto Gargarella

Edited Book | 2004

Democratization and the judiciary. The accountability function of courts in new democracies

Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella and Elin Skaar (eds.)

Journal Article | 2003

Søramerikanske militære for retten: Kva skal til?

Elin Skaar

Mennesker og rettigheter

Edited Book | 2003

Democratization and the Judiciary. The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies. Special issue of 'Democratization 'vol.10 (2003) no.4

Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella and Elin Skaar

Journal Article | 2003

Un análisis de las reformas judiciales de la Argentina, Chile, y Uruguay

Elin Skaar

América Latina Hoy

Report in External Series | 2002

Judicial independence: A key to justice: An analysis of Latin America in the 1990s

Elin Skaar

CMI Working Paper | 2001

Judicial independence and human rights policies in Argentina and Chile

Elin Skaar

Book Review | 1999

Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder. 1999. The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone. Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. New York: Oxford University Press

Elin Skaar

Latin American Politics and Society

CMI Report | 1999

Truth in transition. The role of truth commissions in political transitions in Chile and El Salvador

David Gairdner

CMI Report | 1994

Human rights violations and the paradox of democratic transition. A study of Chile and Argentina

Elin Skaar