Photo Credits

The Ghana National Reconciliation Commission holds public hearings presided over by commissioners listening to witness testimony. Photo by Sara Tolefson, Ghana Center for Democratic Development.

Audience members listen to a hearing of the Ghana National Reconciliation Commission. Photo by Sara Tolefson, Ghana Center for Democratic Development.

Debating the terms of reference for the Liberian truth commission. Photo by Priscilla Hayner, ICTJ.

Acholi women mutilated by soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army near the Sudanese border. Photo by Thomas W. Morley / Exile Images.

Refugees displaced by fighting in Ituri province share a simple meal in a camp for the internally displaced. Photo by Federico Borello, ICTJ.

Refugees on the road in Ituri province. Photo by Federico Borello, ICTJ.

Freedom pillar, of the Pillars of the Constitution exhibit at the Apartheid Museum. Photo by Laura Kennedy.

Orphans outside a camp for internally displaced persons.

Artemis Christodulou guiding visitors through an exhibition of more than 250 artistic contributions made to the National Vision for Sierra Leone project, on display at the National Museum. Photo by ICTJ.

Submission to the National Vision for Sierra Leone project. Photo by ICTJ.

A relative of victims of the civil war prays next to portraits of her loved ones found in a nearby clandestine grave. Photo by Daniel Hernández-Salazar.

Rev. Gregory Headen, co-chair of the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project Local Task Force, swears in commissioners who will sit on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, before an audience of more than 500 people. Photo by Lewis Brandon, III.

Rosalina Tuyuc, founder the National Association of Guatemalan Widows, speaks during a ceremony honoring victims killed by the Guatemalan Army. Photo by Daniel Hernández-Salazar.

Photos of people disappeared by state security forces during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s and 80s. Photo by Elise Nussbaum.

The final march by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who gathered weekly for almost three decades to demand justice for the abduction of their children by state forces. Photo by Elise Nussbaum.

Ceremony for the families of victims of the Lucanamarca massacre. Photo by John Riley, CAVR.

Relatives of victims from La Cantuta listen at the Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Thematic Hearing on Political Violence and the University Community. Photo by John Riley, CAVR.

Candelight vigil in the Plaza de Armas, prior to the start of hearings before the Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Photo by John Riley, CAVR.

Photo by Ben Larke, Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation.

Photo of gate marked by bullet holes in former warzone. Photo by Falk Schaaf.

Photo by Ben Larke, Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation.

Photo by Marieke Wierda, ICTJ.

Photo by Marieke Wierda, ICTJ.

Photo by Ben Larke, Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation.

A monument containing the remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime. Photo by Rebecca Lichtenfeld, ICTJ.

Photos of children killed by the Khmer Rouge. Photo by Rebecca Lichtenfeld, ICTJ.

Inside Tuol Sleng, a former Khmer Rouge prison camp that is now a museum to the atrocities committed by the regime. Photo by Rebecca Lichtenfeld, ICTJ.

Photo by Louis Bickford, ICTJ.

Photo by Louis Bickford, ICTJ.

Photo of woman reading Srebrenica victim names at Peace Palace, February 27, 2006. Photo by Kate O'Neill, Domovina.Net

Witness testifies before the Equity and Reconciliation Commission. Photo by Hanny Megally, ICTJ.

Vigil near the Moroccan parliament for political opponent Mehdi Ben Barka, who was abducted in Paris in 1965 and never again seen in public. Photo by Hanny Megally, ICTJ.

Attendees listen to testimony at a public hearing of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission. Photo by Hanny Megally, ICTJ.

Photo by Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.

Iraqi Kurds observe the exhumation of graves containing the remains of captured Iranian pilots executed by Iraqi forces during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Photo by Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.

Photo by Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.