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Journal articles on the topic "South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

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Maclean, Iain S. "Truth and Reconciliation: Irreconcilable Differences? an Ethical Evaluation of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Religion and Theology 6, no. 3 (1999): 269–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430199x00191.

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AbstractThis article is a theologico-ethical evaluation of the five-volume Report, published in October 1998, of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It comprises two major parts, the first a summary of the principles and political decisions that led to the formation of the commission and focusing primarily on the first volume, which deals with the TRC's mandate, method, structure and methodology, and on the fifth, which deals with the broader ethical, philosophical and religious principles which underlay that mandate. The second part is a theological and ethical evaluation which draws on the experiences of other such commissions, contemporary South African theologians and ethicists. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is found to have begun the process of bringing truth and reconciliation together, a process that requires, in addition, constructive action by the state, civil society, particularly churches (and other religions) and individuals, as the bearers of a moral order.
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Sooka, Yasmin. "Dealing with the past and transitional justice: building peace through accountability." International Review of the Red Cross 88, no. 862 (2006): 311–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1816383106000543.

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Based on her experience as a member of the South African and the Sierra Leonean truth and reconciliation commissions, the author formulates guiding principles and looks at the circumstances in which a truth and reconciliation commission constitutes an appropriate instrument to deal with transitional justice issues. The author also identifies possible contributions that truth and reconciliation commissions can make during a period of transition.
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Meiring, P. G. J. "Leadership for reconciliation: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission perspective." Verbum et Ecclesia 23, no. 3 (2002): 719–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v23i3.1235.

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As important as the need for authentic leadership in the fields of politics, economy and education in Africa may be, the continent is also in dire need of leadership for reconciliation. Against the backdrop of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the author – who served on the Commission – discusses five characteristics of leaders for reconciliation. Leaders need to be: leaders with a clear understanding of the issues at stake; leaders with respect for the truth; leaders with a sense of justice; leaders with a comprehension of the dynamics of forgiveness; and leaders with a firm commitment. The insights and experiences of both the chairperson of the TRC, Desmond Tutu, and the deputy chair, Alex Boraine, form the backbone of the article.
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van Rensburg, Bernard Janse. "Reconciliation and psychiatry in South Africa." BJPsych. International 12, no. 3 (2015): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000000441.

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Although psychiatrists did not form part of the structures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa (SPSA) at the time did make a submission. Since then, the local association of psychiatrists has been reconstituted as the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP). Psychiatry and psychiatrists may have to extend their activities beyond rehabilitation and restoration, to include endeavours to prevent future violations of human rights.
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Sacco, Therese, and Wilma Hoffmann. "Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa." International Social Work 47, no. 2 (2004): 157–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872804041410.

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South Africa’s attempt to come to terms with its horrific past; mechanisms and responsibilities of countries endeavoring to deal with such pasts; objectives of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and critiques of it are identified. A public acknowledgement submitted by some South African social work educators is included.
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Nelaeva, G., and N. Sidorova. "Transitional Justice in South Africa and Brazil: Introducing a Gendered Approach to Reconciliation." BRICS Law Journal 6, no. 2 (2019): 82–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2019-6-2-82-107.

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The concept of transitional justice has been associated with the periods of political change when a country emerges from a war or turmoil and attempts to address the wrongdoings of the past. Among various instruments of transitional justice, truth commissions stand out as an example of a non-judicial form of addressing the crimes of the past. While their setup and operation can be criticized on different grounds, including excessive politization of hearings and the virtual impossibility of meaningfully assessing their impact, it has been widely acknowledged in the literature that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa can be regarded as a success story due to its relatively strong mandate and widespread coverage and resonance it had in South African society. We would like to compare this commission from the 1990s with a more recent example, the Brazilian National Truth Commission, so as to be able to address the question of incorporation of gendered aspects in transitional justice (including examination of sexual violence cases, representation of women in truth-telling bodies, etc.), since gender often remains an overlooked and silenced aspect in such initiatives. Gendered narratives of transitional justice often do not fit into the wider narratives of post-war reconciliation. A more general question addressed in this research is whether the lack of formal procedure in truth commissions facilitates or hinders examination of sexual crimes in transitional settings.
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Stanley, Elizabeth. "Evaluating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Journal of Modern African Studies 39, no. 3 (2001): 525–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x01003706.

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Following a negotiated transition to democracy in South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to deal with crimes of the past regime. Despite the detail of submissions and the length of the Final Report, this article highlights the partiality of truth recognised by the Commission. The usefulness of acknowledged truth to deal with South Africa's past is shown to have been neutralised by wider concerns of social and criminal justice. In detailing the governmental reticence to provide reparations, the judicial disregard to pursue prosecutions, and the dismissal of responsibility for apartheid at a wider social level, the author argues that opportunities for reconciliation and developmental change are limited. Against the problems of crime, violence and unresolved land issues, the potential of the TRC to build a ‘reconciliatory bridge’ is called into question. The truth offered by the Commission increasingly appears of limited value.
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Driver, Dorothy. "Truth, Reconciliation, Gender: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Black Women's Intellectual History1." Australian Feminist Studies 20, no. 47 (2005): 219–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464500090384.

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Boesak, Allan A. "Deification, Demonization and Dispossession." International Journal of Public Theology 8, no. 4 (2014): 420–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341366.

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Many regard South Africa’s reconciliation process as a model for a search for peace in and among nations. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission played an admirable part in this. However, problems remain in continuing and completing this reconciliation project. For many the failure to secure social justice through reconciliation remains one challenge. At issue is also how South Africans deal with their fractured and painful past. This article revisits issues of culpability and responsibility by asking whether a primary obstacle towards reconciliation might be that South Africans, instead of taking personal and collective responsibility for reconciliation, have hidden behind two major and completely opposite South African figures: Nelson Mandela and Eugene De Kock. It is argued that the ‘deification’ of Mandela and the ‘demonization’ of De Kock pose an important obstacle for the acceptance of culpability and responsibility for addressing historic wrongs with a view to true reconciliation.
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Graybill, Lyn, Wilmot James, Linda van de Vijver, and Richard Wilson. "Assessing South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 36, no. 2 (2002): 356. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4107209.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

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Jardine, Varushka. "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2010. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03112010-141422.

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Moon, Claire. "Narrating reconciliation : South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268827.

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Ross, Fiona C. "Bearing witness : women and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3618.

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MESQUITA, PAULA ESPOSEL CARNEIRO DE. "THE TRUTHS OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF SOUTH AFRICA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25111@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>Ao observar a transição política de países que passaram por um regime autoritário ou um conflito civil durante os anos 1980-90, a ser pensada pelo paradigma da verdade, pretende-se determinar como verdade e poder estão articulados na Comissão da Verdade. Esse paradigma, atribui à verdade noções como sofrimento humano, democracia, reconciliação e Direitos Humanos. Esse discurso pela verdade parece privilegiar a Comissão da Verdade como modelo de transição para reconciliação e cura da sociedade. Orientada pelos princípios restaurativos e justificado pelo discurso do trauma, a comissão estabelece um inquérito que tem a confissão de vítimas e perpetradores como instrumento para afirmar uma verdade. Entende-se esse modelo de inquérito como um ritual de passagem de um passado de violência para construção de um país democrático no futuro. Um ritual que tem no ato da confissão a delimitação de novos papéis sociais de vítimas e perpetradores, e consequentemente, de novas relações de poder, para a restauração do laço social e a reconstrução política do país. Para compreender melhor essa articulação será analisada a Comissão da Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul, caso emblemático no desenvolvimento desse paradigma verdade/reconciliação, cura. Pretende-se contribuir com uma análise crítica do que esse modelo de transição impõe e que alternativas ele exclui. Este estudo se fundamenta na perspectiva foucaultiana, segundo a qual a produção de verdade é uma forma de governar os sujeitos. A confissão é apontada como uma das tecnologias de produção de verdade.<br>By observing the political transition in countries that have experienced an authoritarian regime or civil conflict during the years 1980-90, to be interpreted under the paradigm of truth, it is intended to determine how truth and power are articulated in the truth commission. This paradigm assigns to the truth notions such as human suffering, democracy, reconciliation and human rights, and it seems to privilege the truth commission as a transition model for reconciliation and healing of society. Based on restorative principles and justified by the discourse of trauma, the committee establishes an inquiry that has the confession of victims and perpetrators as a means to affirm a truth. This inquiry is assumed as a ritual of transition from a violent past to a future of democracy. In this ritual the act of confession sets new social roles of victims and perpetrators and, consequently, new power relations, necessary for the restoration of social relations and political reconstruction of the country. In order to better interpret this articulation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, an emblematic case in the development of this paradigm, truth/reconciliation and healing, is examined. It is intended to contribute to a critical analysis of this transition model: what it imposes and what alternatives it excludes. This study is based on Foucault s perspective, according to which the production of truth is a way of governing subjects, and the avowal is a technique of producing true.
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Abduroaf, Muneer. "Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?" Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6028_1359554144.

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<p>Since the 1980&rsquo<br>s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured<br>and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights<br>promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>
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Johnstone, Anika Ceric. "Making memory national : South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj718.pdf.

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Leman-Langlois, Stéphane. "Constructing post-conflict justice, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an ongoing invention of reconciliation and truth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53688.pdf.

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Kumordzie, Beatrice. "The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31612.

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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been subject to numerous debates across a wide range of disciplines, including peace and conflict studies, justice and transformation studies, as well as religious studies. In political science, the debates concerning the TRC have mainly revolved around the peace versus justice dichotomy, and more recently - the heated question of whether symbolic measures as opposed to socioeconomic measures can pave the ideal path to justice and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. Arguably, the debates that have dominated the discourse on justice and transformation in South Africa so far has failed to acknowledge and unpack the central role that religion played in the country’s process of transition. My argument is that religion was instrumentalized politically in the TRC, and thereby used to morally justify certain political compromises that were made during the negotiations between the apartheid National Party (NP) and the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1990s. By political instrumentalization, I am referring to the strategy of using an identity marker, in this case Christianity, to achieve political ends. I propose that that the Mandela administration purposely employed religious elements in the political nation-building-tool of the TRC with the intent to create an atmosphere of “spiritual healing”. This symbolic and inter-personal understanding of justice in turn, it can be argued, came at the expense of retributive and/ or socio-economic justice. The influence of religion within the TRC can be seen most strongly in the identity of the key people involved (the chairperson Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and four of the commissioners who were theologians), the overt biblical rhetoric employed both in the hearings and in the final report, as well as in the design of the commission. The constructivist theories in which this paper will frame its understanding of “the religious” suggests any space can become holy through the performance of religious practices. In this regard, I propose that the TRC, while appearing to be a court-like body, became a sacred space through practices including prayers, lighting of candles and singing of hymns.
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Rattazzi, Erin Alexis. "Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14273.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The seven women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies of rape were affected by explicit and implicit underlying narrative frameworks associated with the language of the TRC, and that of rape. In particular, this project analyses the extent to which the juxtaposition of these two frameworks at the TRC may have either enabled or constrained the seven women's narratives.
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Grimes, John. "Defining “Third Force” Activity: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Eugene de Kock." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1440.

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This paper examines claims about a purported “third force,” individuals and organizations that operated in South Africa during the “transitional period,” from 1990 to1994, who aimed to destabilize the country and prevent a democratic election. This paper focuses on the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and testimony contained in the official Amnesty Committee’s transcripts of former Colonel Eugene de Kock. This paper argues that the “third force” was not a designated government agency and former President F.W. de Klerk did not order “third force” violence. This paper further argues that numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations worked collectively to disrupt a transfer of power.
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Books on the topic "South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

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Christie, Kenneth. The South African Truth Commission. St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Shea, Dorothy C. The South African Truth Commission: The politics of reconciliation. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000.

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Hahn-Godeffroy, Emily. Die südafrikanische Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Nomos, 1998.

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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1999.

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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report. The Commission, 1998.

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Leman-Langlois, Stéphane. Constructing post-conflict justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an ongoing invention of reconciliation and truth. S. Leman-Lanaglois, 2000.

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Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla. Women's contributions to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2005.

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Equity, mercy, forgiveness: Interpreting amnesty within the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Peeters, 2007.

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Mandela and Truth and Reconciliation. Heinemann Library, 2014.

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Reconciliation discourse: The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. John Benjamins Pub., 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

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Christie, Kenneth. "Towards Reconciliation or Deepening the Wounds?" In The South African Truth Commission. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333983140_7.

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Bollaert, Cathy. "Worldview Diversity Within South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Reconciliation and Building a Sustainable Peace. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03655-3_4.

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Adam, Heribert, and Kanya Adam. "Merits and shortcomings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Remembrance and Forgiveness. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429329746-4.

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Slye, Ronald C. "IX. Amnesty, Truth, and Reconciliation: Reflections on the South African Amnesty Process." In Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions, edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson. Princeton University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400832033-010.

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Scott, Jill. "Poetic and Performative Forgiveness in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In A Poetics of Forgiveness. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230106246_7.

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Stuit, Hanneke. "Ubuntu and Common Humanity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Ubuntu Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58009-2_2.

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Benyera, Everisto. "South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Nigeria’s Oputa Panel: Comparison, Lessons and the Future of Truth Commissions in Africa." In Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00081-3_10.

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Cole, Catherine M. "Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Violence Performed. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-31692-8_9.

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Sharp, Michael. "Ingrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of Questions” and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6_6.

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Friedman, Merle. "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as an Attempt to Heal a Traumatized Society." In International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_29.

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Conference papers on the topic "South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

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Muller, Marie. "THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION AND PROSPECTS FOR STABILITY IN SOUTH AND SOUTHERN AFRICA." In Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812810212_0011.

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