Truth and reconciliation in South Africa :

Truth and reconciliation in South Africa : did the TRC deliver? / edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008. - x, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Pennsylvania studies in human rights .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-335) and index.

Preface / Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe -- Introduction : assessing the South African transitional justice model / Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe -- What survivors say about justice : an analysis of the TRC victim hearings / Hugo van der Merwe -- The TRC's approach to promoting reconciliation in the human rights violations hearings / Audrey R. Chapman -- Perspectives on the role of forgiveness in the human rights violations hearings / Audrey R. Chapman -- An evaluation of the South African amnesty process / Jeremy Sarkin -- The impact of the TRC's amnesty process on survivors of human rights violations / Timothy Sizwe Phakathi and Hugo van der Merwe -- Levels of truth : macro-truth and the TRC / Audrey R. Chapman and Patrick Ball -- Truth recovery through the TRC's institutional hearings process / Audrey R. Chapman -- Object of trust and hatred : public attitudes toward the TRC / Gunnar Theissen -- Reaping what you sow : political parties, the TRC, and the quest for truth and reconciliation / Piers Pigou -- Did the TRC deliver? / Hugo van der Merwe and Audrey R. Chapman -- Reflections on the South African experience / Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe.

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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.


Human rights--South Africa.
Reconciliation--Political aspects--South Africa.


South Africa--Race relations.
South Africa--Politics and government--1994-

DT1974.2 / .T775 2008

968.06