PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsSupporting Post-Conflict Reconciliation: An Assessment of International Assistance to South Africa's Truth CommissionThe 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 provided to the TRC to determine what aid worked well and why or why not. He then seeks to extract… Read More Duncan McPhersonApril 2, 2001
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Reparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeLesson Drawing: Northern Ireland and South AfricaThis 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 on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Committee on Reparation and Rehabilitation of Victims, as well as the National Crime Prevention… Read More Helen Brocklehurst, Noel Stott, Brandon Hamber and Gillian RobinsonMarch 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsWhat Do We Tell Our Children? The Work of the Centre for Ubuntu in Cape Town (Formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission)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 in 1994. The report is meant to provide an insight into the history and operation of the initiative (the original… Read More Undine Whande KayserFebruary 1, 2001
PolicyPublicationsResearchPolicy-Making, Transitional JusticeFuture Challenges to Policy-Making in Countries in TransitionThe 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 around the expected challenges in policy-making that countries in transition will face. Facets such as the patterns of need and… Read More Graeme Simpson, Brandon Hamber and Noel StottJanuary 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchTorture and State Violence, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions'We Are Still Struggling': Storytelling, Reparations and Reconciliation After the TRCSince 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: the Cape Town Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture and the Western Cape Branch of the Khulumani Support… Read More Christopher J. ColvinDecember 1, 2000
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsEvaluation of the Health Sector Hearing: Conceptualising Human Rights and ReconciliationAs 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 important step in the process of promoting reconciliation, transforming health services in South Africa and promoting a human rights culture… Read More Hugo van der MerweDecember 1, 2000
