The basic purpose of this study is to provide a baseline understanding of the role of international assistance in the TRC process, upon which future policy can be built. Duncan McPherson looks first to analyse the instances of international assistance…
This paper provides a cursory assessment of lesson drawing during the negotiated transitions in Northern Ireland and South Africa. In Northern Ireland the focus is on the Independent Review of Policing and Victim Policy. In South Africa, the focus is…
The research, on which this report is based, focused on the creation process, the intervention activities and subsequent changes that The Centre for Ubuntu (formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) initiative has undergone since its formation…
The subsequent report is a documentation of the presentation to the Workshop Comparative Experiences of Policy Making and Implementation in Countries in Transition, 6th – 7th February 2001, Derry /Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The report reflects on discussions that predominantly revolve…
As part of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), various sectoral hearings were held to highlight the role of these sectors in South Africa's past. The health sector hearing was one such example and has been hailed as an…
Since the end of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), there have been few institutionalised spaces for South Africans to practically engage with personal memories and the apartheid past. This report considers and evaluates two of the few such spaces:…