TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wachira,George
AU  - Kamungi, Prisca
AU  - Sillah, Kalie
TI  - Stretching the truth: the uncertain promise of TRJs in Africa's transitional justice
SN  - 9789966173058
AV  - DT1974.2 .M33 2014
U1  - 305.800968 23
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Truth and Reconciliation Commission
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Deliberative democracy
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Post-apartheid era
KW  - Apartheid
N1  - includes Bibliographical References and Index; Introduction : the rhetoricity of truth commissions -- Localizing transitional justice -- Ambivalent speech, resonant silences -- Contesting accountability -- Imagining reconciliation -- Conclusion
N2  - "Analyzes the deliberations and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Argues that while it failed to realize its idealistic goals, its very failure generated valuable contestation within and beyond the TRC process"--Provided by publisher
ER  -