Reconciliation Through Amnesty? Amnesty Applicants' Views of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The subsequent report aims both to inform further intervention with ex-combatants in South Africa and to provide some insights that may guide other international efforts to engage perpetrators of human rights abuses in conditional amnesties, truth seeking, restorative justice and reconciliation processes.

 

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Therese Abrahamsen
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Therese Abrahamsen from Norway graduated in M. Phil Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town in 2005. She worked as an intern and contract researcher at CSVR in 2003 and 2004.

Dr. Hugo van der Merwe is the former Director of Research, Knowledge and Learning at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.