Toward a response to criticisms of the South African truth and reconciliation commission

Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 245-278

  Verwoerd, Wilhelm ^a  

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References (39)

1. Krog, Country of My Skull, 82-100.
2. Sunday Weekend Argus, June 29-30, 1996, 3.
3. See TRC Report, vol. 1, 48-93 for detail on the mandate of the TRC.
4. M. Mamdani, "Justice or Reconciliation," South Africa Review of Books (December): 2-5.
5. W.J. Verwoerd, "Individual and/or Social Justice: Hard Choices Faced by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission," European Journal of Development Research 11, 2: 115-40 for a response to this criticism.
6. H.P.P. Lötter, Justice for an Unjust Society (Amsterdam: Rodolphi, 1993).
7. See TRC Report, vol. 2, 42-324.
8. A. Jeffery, The Truth about the Truth Commission (Johannesburg: SA Institute of Race Relations, 1999), who argues that the TRC was biased against the Inkatha Freedom Party.
9. Asmal, Asmal and Roberts and Burton's replies, both in C. Villa-Vicencio and W.J. Verwoerd, Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Essays on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Cape Town: Juta, 2000).
10. J. Cronin, "Tutu's Report Tells the Truth but Not the Whole Truth," Sunday Independent, November 15, 1998.
11. Meiring and Villa-Vicencio in Villa-Vicencio and Verwoerd; S. Dwyer, "Reconciliation for Realists," Ethics and International Affairs 13: 81-98, and in this volume.
12. Shriver; T. Govier and J. Verwoerd, "Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32, 2 (June 2002): 178-205.
13. Sunday Independent, December 6, 1998.
14. Carlos Nino, Radical Evil on Trial (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
15. Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
16. See also T. Govier and W. Verwoerd, "Forgiveness: The Victim's Prerogative," South Africa Journal of Philosophy 21, 2 (2002): 97-111.
17. Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, 4.
18. C.W. du Toit, ed., Confession and Reconciliation (Pretoria: Reasearch Institute for Theology and Religion, 1998).
19. See TRC Report, vol. 1, chap. 4.
20. See TRC Report, vol. 1, chap. 5; vol. 5, chap. 9;.
21. Govier and Verwoerd, "Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation," 2002.
22. P. Ricoeur, "The Memory of Suffering," in Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative and Imagination (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995).
23. Krog, Country of My Skull, 237.
24. H. Shue, Basic Rights (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 18-19.
25. R. Bhargarva, "The Moral Justifications of Truth Commissions, " in Villa-Vincencio and Verwoerd; A. Margalit, The Decent Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).
26. T. Mbeki, "Culture: The Barrier which Blocks Regress to Beastly Ways," in Africa: The Time Has Come, Selected Speeches (Cape Town: Tafelberg, Mafube, 1998), 259.
27. W.B. Yeats, Selected Poetry (London: Pan Books, 1974).
28. In this section I draw on Verwoerd, "Individual and/or Social Justice.".
29. Hansard, May 16-18, 1995.
30. A. Borraine, "Alternatives and Adjuncts to Criminal Prosecutions," unpublished paper delivered in Brussels, July 20-21, 1996.
31. J. Braithwaite, Crime, Shame, and Reintegration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989);.
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33. H. Zehr, Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice (Waterloo, ON: Herald Press, 1990);.
34. J. Consedine, Restorative Justice: Healing the Effects of Crime (Lyttelton: Ploughshares, 1995);.
35. J. Llewellyn and R. Howse, "Restorative Justice: A Conceptual Framework," discussion paper, Law Commission of Canada, 1998, 1-107.
36. Villa-Vicencio, "Restorative Justice";.
37. J. Llewellyn, "Justice for South Africa?-Restorative Justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission," in C.M. Koggel, ed., Moral Issues in Global Perspective (New York: Broadview Press, 1999);.
38. Llewellyn and Howse; E. Kiss, "Moral Ambition within and beyond Political Constraints: Reflections on Restorative Justice," in R. Rotberg and D. Thompson, eds., Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
39. Zehr, Changing Lenses, 20.