The House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has confirmed that it would consider how the North could learn from the experiences of other countries who have tried to address traumatic events in their history.
The probe follows an announcement earlier this year, in May, by Northern Secretary Paul Murphy that he was launching a consultation on how the province could come to terms with what had happened during the Troubles.
In June Paul Murphy travelled to South Africa with his Victims Minister, Angela Smith to find out how that country had handled its truth and reconciliation process.
The government has also been looking at other truth and reconciliation
processes from around the world and has also been considering other ways of
enabling people who lost loved ones during the trouble or suffered trauma to
tell their tale.
The Conservative MP Michael Mates, who is chairman of the committee, tonight invited individuals and organisations to come forward and give evidence to his committee on the issue.