# Truth Commission

> Truth Commission is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:armed-struggle-revolution:truth-commission` |
| Family | Armed Struggle & Revolution |
| Domain | Conflict |
| Kind | strategy |
| Archetypal function | The Break |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Truth Commission belongs to the **Armed Struggle & Revolution** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Truth Commission seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Truth Commission, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Break.** Truth Commission is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

## Gift

can rupture entrenched coercive arrangements; through Truth Commission, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

normalizes violence, centralizes secrecy, and reproduces domination; Truth Commission can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Truth Commission to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Break enters through Truth Commission. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Truth Commission becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Truth Commission; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Transitional Justice:** Transitional Justice legitimizes Truth Commission by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Law-and-Order Politics:** Truth Commission mobilizes Law-and-Order Politics by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — Sunrise Movement:** Sunrise Movement legitimizes Truth Commission by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Truth Commission from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Truth Commission is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Truth Commission: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Revolution](https://www.britannica.com/topic/revolution-politics) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, ongoing. Comparative conceptual background; supplement with case-specific scholarship.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
