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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Truth and Reconciliation Commission"”.
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Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
… 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 …
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Exploring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report as a classroom resource
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) (1998) report is a five-volume record of the voices of many victims and perpetrators of apartheid giving evidence of their experiences and suffering. It is encoded in sophisticated and often complex English, largely inaccessible to its public South …
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Bearing witness : women and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 206-215.
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Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy …
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
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 …
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Defining “Third Force” Activity: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Eugene de Kock
… 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 …
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Psychotherapy for sequelae of trauma based on testimonies of victims at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… the rule of Apartheid were exposed to torturous and traumatic experiences. The implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was all attempt to uncover these traumas and to begin the process of redressing and making reparation for gross human rights violations of the past. The …
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Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?
… human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured; 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; promote a …
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A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has influenced policing policy and practice in Ontario.
… current socio-economic marginality, colonialism, and intergenerational trauma that perpetuates systemic racism, overrepresentation within the criminal justice system, and a paradox of over and under-policing. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) detailed the roles of colonialism and …
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Identity in transition : towards a conceptualization of the sociopolitical dynamics of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-99).
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Making amends : the psychological impact of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on victims of gross human rights violations
South Africa established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1995 to facilitate its nation building. The task of the Commission was to recover truth about the country's past human rights abuse and recommend a policy on reparations for the victims. This study evaluates the impact of the …
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The Narrative of the ‘new' South Africa: Bearing Witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its 20th Anniversary
… of democracy, 60 years of the Freedom Charter and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) saw its 20th anniversary. This has gone relatively unacknowledged, eclipsed by socio-political and economic turmoil. A struggling economy, rising inequality, unemployment, ‘xenophobia' and …
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A critical-theoretic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas
… different bodies of work illuminate the problems and prospects for sustained democratic development in a country that has been affected by the impact of a series of cumulative civilizing offensives.I argue that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) must be judged in relation …
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The law and economics of bargaining: an examination of the bargaining model employed by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… from the restorative justice model to engender truth and reconciliation. These normative concepts have evolved into a policy of creating truth and reconciliation commissions that trade civil and criminal amnesty with applicants in exchange for information. This bargained-for exchange can be …
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The experience of witnesses who testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: testimonial process and psychological healing in the aftermath of trauma
… of testifying before the TRC among victims and survivors of gross human rights abuses, and the objectives that were set out by the TRC with regard to healing.
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Archives of apartheid-era economic crimes and legacies of socioeconomic violence: the truth and reconciliation commission, ‘Forgotten’ voices in the present and open secrets
… apartheid regime constructed a legacy of secrecy and economic corruption, which led to white-owned businesses and international players collaborating with the National Party. This alliance benefitted all stakeholders financially and helped sustain a “criminal economy,” which impoverished black …
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A rhetorical analysis of the joint sitting on the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission held at Parliament on 15 April 2003
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-164).
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The memory of the past and the struggle with the present : an investigation into the restorative possibilities of providing public testimony at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… through testimony as well as the immediate and also longer-term effects of providing public testimony by accessing the lived experiences of victims in their post-testimony lives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 individuals who had experienced a gross violation of human …
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The plea agreements process in the International criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the light of the amnesty process in the Truth and Reconciliation commission in South Africa
… resource to the process. This study examines and compares two contexts in which this has been so. Its central objective is to understand to what extent the practice of plea bargaining with perpetrators of war crimes at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) contributed to …
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