The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa legitimizing the post-apartheid state
"The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge studies in law and society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31354579*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Human rights and nation-building
- 2. Technologies of truth : the TRC's truth-making machine
- 3. The politics of truth and human rights
- 4. Reconciliation through truth?
- 5. Reconciliation in society : religious values and procedural pragmatism
- 6. Vengeance, revenge and retribution
- 7. Reconciliation with a vengeance
- 8. Conclusions : human rights, reconciliation and retribution.
