PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsInvestigation Units: The Teeth of the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionThis paper examines various issues relating to the investigation units (IU) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Based primarily on extensive interviews with people involved in the Goldstone Commission's investigations and those involved in other relevant investigations into human rights violations, this paper highlights the issues that will need to be addressed in the establishment of investigation units for the TRC. Read More Gareth NewhamSeptember 1, 1995
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Trauma and Transition, Truth CommissionsDo Sleeping Dogs Lie? The Psychological Implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South AfricaThis paper explores how the process of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) could operate as psychologically rehabilitative mechanism. It focuses on the potentially numerous traumatised individuals who will come into contact with the TRC and their likely experience of the process. The core argument is that the TRC is not a sufficient process in itself to promote individual and collective psychological rehabilitation and that a range of psychological structures and strategies will be needed to run parallel to the TRC. Types of structures are suggested and the psychological implications of truth and reconciliation process highlighted throughout. Read More Brandon HamberJuly 26, 1995
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsCommunity Policing, Human Rights and the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionThis paper discusses some of the ways that the police services can effectively transform in the post-apartheid period and lead South Africa towards a truly democratic and peaceful future. Read More Monique MarksJuly 25, 1995
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Truth Commissions"Truth, Dare or Promise": Civil Society and the Proposed Commission on Truth and ReconciliationThis paper is concerned with the seemingly imminent issue of legislation to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, and with the related controversial issues of indemnification of past human rights perpetrators and public access to information relating to these abuses during the apartheid era, as well as during the subsequent negotiation period. Read More Graeme SimpsonAugust 18, 1994
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsReconciliation and Civil SocietyThis paper explores the complexities of the reconciliation process and what it would take from an individualistic and societal perspective to have a successful transition. Read More Peter StoreyAugust 18, 1994
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsRights, Reparations and Reconciliation: Some Comparative NotesThis paper explores issues relating to reparations for victims of past abuses. It offers an overview of truth commissions and reparations in Chile, Argentina and El Salvador. Read More Jayni EdelsteinJuly 27, 1994
