Performing South Africa S Truth Commission
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Performing South Africa S Truth Commission
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Author : Catherine M. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010
Performing South Africa S Truth Commission written by Catherine M. Cole and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Apartheid categories.
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.
The South African Truth Commission
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Author : Dorothy C. Shea
language : en
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Release Date : 2000
The South African Truth Commission written by Dorothy C. Shea and has been published by US Institute of Peace Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with South Africa categories.
In the latter half of the 1990s, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) offered the country the chance to build a better future by facing up to its past. Amid saturation media coverage, victims of human rights abuses told their harrowing stories and perpetrators confessed to horrendous acts. Meanwhile, the commissioners grappled with decisions that would not only apportion responsibility and grant or deny amnesty but also have a profound political and social impact. To this highly charged, controversial subject, Dorothy Shea brings a rare combination of objectivity, thoroughness, and a firm grasp of both the principles and the political interests at stake. She begins by investigating the origins of the TRC in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, and she examines the extent to which it learned from the experiences of earlier, Latin American commissions. Then she focuses on how the politics of the TRC were played out in issues such as amnesty, reparations, and prosecutions. Her report on the TRC offers a generally positive assessment and explains not only how South Africa measured up but also why. Finally, Shea draws lessons from the TRC experience that may help to inform future efforts to shape and establish truth commissions in other transitional societies.
Chronicle Of The Truth And Reconciliation Commission
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Author : Piet Meiring
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-03-07
Chronicle Of The Truth And Reconciliation Commission written by Piet Meiring and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-07 with Social Science categories.
For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.
The Limits Of Transition The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission 20 Years On
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Author : Mia Swart
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-07
The Limits Of Transition The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission 20 Years On written by Mia Swart and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Law categories.
The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.
The South African Truth Commission
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Author : K. Christie
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2000-05-26
The South African Truth Commission written by K. Christie and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-26 with Political Science categories.
Over the last thirty years, many political transitions from authoritarian regimes and dictatorial political systems have been accompanied by Truth Commissions. Since 1974 there have been over twenty of these Commissions established in countries as diverse as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Germany, among others. Perhaps the most important Truth Commission of our time is the South African one which also seeks to act as a mechanism for reconciliation in a divided society. The South African conflict was extremely long and violent; its victims suffered traumatic experiences and, in part, one of the Commission's functions is to allow their story to be told. This book tries to examine the Truth Commission here and the issues that surround it, assessing different versions of the South African past and the complex negotiations leading to the establishment of the Commission and the complex politics of amnesty, justice and nation-building.
African Truth Commissions And Transitional Justice
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Author : John Perry
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-04-22
African Truth Commissions And Transitional Justice written by John Perry and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Religion categories.
Using an inductive methodology based on one key component of transitional justice—namely, truth commissions—African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice attempts to place them within the context of other elements such as trials of human rights abusers, the strengths and weaknesses of amnesty, and the importance of memorialization.
Commissioning The Past
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Author : Deborah Posel
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2002
Commissioning The Past written by Deborah Posel and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This work includes the uncensored voices of survivors of human rights abuses who testified before South Africa's Truth and Reconcilation Commission and in whose name the hearings were undertaken. The views of three groups with different perspectives are reported: academic scholars, commissioners and researchers and people who related stories of victimization perpetrated on themselves or a family member. The emerging dialogue between "outsiders" and "insiders, " and between national, local, and individual experiences is a distinguishing feature of the book.
The Commission
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Author : South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
language : en
Publisher:
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The Commission written by South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Apartheid categories.
CD-ROM contains full text of print volumes and expanded name index.
Truth And Reconciliation In South Africa
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Author : Hugo van der Merwe
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2008-02
Truth And Reconciliation In South Africa written by Hugo van der Merwe and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02 with History categories.
"Of the truth commissions to date, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has most effectively captured public attention throughout the world and provided the model for succeeding bodies. Although other truth commissions had preceded its establishment, the TRC had a far more expansive mandate: to go beyond truth-finding to promote national unity and reconciliation, to facilitate the granting of amnesty to those who made full factual disclosure, to restore the human and civil dignity of victims by providing them an opportunity to tell their own stories, and to make recommendations to the president on measures to prevent future human rights violations.
Narrating Political Reconciliation
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Author : Claire Moon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Narrating Political Reconciliation written by Claire Moon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Narrating Political Reconciliation offers a compelling approach to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It provides a critical theoretical account of how the TRC's reconciliation story came into being, and how it shaped and promoted the norms, practices and truisms central to the global 'reconciliation industry'. In particular, the book examines the material practices and rituals that underpinned the TRC. Claire Moon shows how the TRC narrated apartheid history as a sequence of gross violations of human rights perpetrated with a political objective, with the effect of transforming competing politico-moral claims into an 'objective' legal-technical discourse. She also shows how the TRC constructed victims and perpetrators as the key subjects of the new political order through ritual practices of confession, testimony, forgiveness and healing. Moon argues that, the TRC had multiple and divergent effects. Whilst it attempted to secure reconciliation, the TRC also generated new social conflicts around questions of justice, reparations and apartheid violence: it appeared to redeem those who profited from apartheid but did not directly perpetrate atrocities; it left unacknowledged the everyday suffering of thousands; it left undisturbed structures of material inequality within which political violence was made possible. Overall, Moon provides a unique approach to reconciliation and transitional justice in post-conflict and democratizing states, and this book serves as a challenging critical analysis of the field for students and scholars alike.