[pt] O presente trabalho realiza uma investigação da localização da norma internacional do direito à verdade, através do estabelecimento e pratica da comissão da verdade, no Brasil. Instalada em maio de 2012, a Comissão Nacional da Verdade insere o Brasil em uma, cada vez mais extensa, lista de Estados que recorrem a esse mecanismo para lidar com violações pretéritas de direitos humanos. Pautado em uma norma internacional – o direito à verdade –, o estabelecimento de comissões da verdade é uma prática que se difundiu juntamente com outros mecanismos de justiça de transição, e que percebe no enfrentamento do passado uma forma de se construir um futuro melhor. Não obstante, a localização dessa norma pode, por vezes, encontrar resistências decorrente de normas locais divergentes. Sob uma perspectiva construtivista de localização de normas internacionais, esse estudo pretende analisar quais foram as adversidades políticas e legais encontradas durante a introdução do direito à verdade nos quadros normativos e institucionais do Brasil, prestando particular atenção ao processo que levou à criação e ao trabalho da Comissão Nacional da Verdade, entre 2012 e 2014. Essa dissertação argumenta que este processo de localização enfrentou uma oposição político-legal doméstica, e que coube a atores locais a reinterpretação da norma para a sua efetiva adequação às demandas locais. / [en] The present work investigates the localization of an international norm in Brazil, the right to the truth, through the establishment and practice of a truth commission. Established in May 2012, the National Truth Commission inserts Brazil into an ever-expanding list of states that resort to this mechanism in order to deal with past human rights violations. Guided by an international norm - the right to the truth -, the establishment of truth commissions is a practice that has spread along with other transitional justice mechanisms and that perceives the confrontation with the past as a way to build a better future. Nevertheless, the localization of this norm may occasionally encounter resistance from divergent local norms. From a constructivist perspective of international norms localization, the aim of this study is to analyze the political and legal constraints faced during the insertion of the right to the truth into Brazil s normative and institutional frameworks, paying particular attention to the process that lead to the creation and the actual work of the National Truth Commission from 2012 to 2014. This dissertation argues that the process of localization faced political and legal opposition and that it was up to local actors to reinterpret the international norm in order to adapt it effectively to local demands.

The thesis is related to transnational social movements’ production of knowledge. Particularly, the research investigates the developed norms and pathways of a Palestinian-transnational movement (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement- The BDS movement) during its formation period. The thesis reviews major social movement theories (i.e. Sidney Tarrow and Margeret Sikkink). While benefiting from major aspects of these theories, the thesis discovers that the researched movement suggests major deviations from these theories. Hence, the thesis mobilizes other literature, particularly of Pierre Bourdieu, to better account for cultural and social dimensions. This choice is enforced by the presence of academics that form a pillar in the movement. Yet, the thesis mobilizes together diverse dimensions from social movement literature, sociology and history (i.e. the historical trajectory of individual and collective actors), and with a constant check with the case itself. The methodological choice of the research goes back and forth between theories and the case (abductive methodology). Two chapters of the thesis are dedicated to the agency of the Palestinian actors in addition to interactions inside the field of power in Palestine. Another two chapters discuss transnational relations with a focus on European actors. Specific cases are chosen from interactions with Belgian and British actors. Moreover, interactions in three transnational fora are discussed.The research concludes that this transnational movement infuses diverse norms from different experiences and regions while adhering to universal norms such as comprehensive human rights. Moreover, the movement follows diverse pathways that include a Palestinian emergence, a Global Southern path and through the North. And these pathways enforce the adherence of the movement to specific norms. Such findings diverge from “Euro-centric” approaches in discussed social movements’ literature in the thesis. The research finally discusses other literature more relevant to the case (i.e. by Amitav Acharya), which argues that local actors try to protect their norms from abuse by central forces, and they do not only import norms but also diffuse new norms. The thesis ends up with questions for further research on the patterns of norms diffusion. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished