Monday, January 14, 2008

Chapman & van der Merwe: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver?

Audrey R. Chapman (Univ. of Connecticut Health Center) & Hugo van der Merwe (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Cape Town) have published Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2008). This is another volume in the series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Contents include:
  • Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe, Introduction: Assessing the South African Transitional Justice Model
  • Hugo van der Merwe, What Survivors Say About Justice: An Analysis of the TRC Victim Hearings
  • Audrey R. Chapman, The TRC's Approach to Promoting Reconciliation in the Human Rights Violations Hearings
  • Audrey R. Chapman, Perspectives on the Role of Forgiveness in the Human Rights Violations Hearings
  • Jeremy Sarkin, An Evaluation of the South African Amnesty Process
  • Timothy Sizwe Phakathi & Hugo van der Merwe, The Impact of the TRC's Amnesty Process on Survivors of Human Rights Violations
  • Audrey R. Chapman & Patrick Ball, Levels of Truth: Macro-Truth and the TRC
  • Audrey R. Chapman, Truth Recovery Through the TRC's Institutional Hearings Process
  • Gunnar Theissen, Object of Trust and Hatred: Public Attitudes Toward the TRC
  • Piers Pigou, Reaping What You Sow: Political Parties, the TRC, and the Quest for Truth and Reconciliation
  • Hugo van der Merwe & Audrey R. Chapman, Did the TRC Deliver?
  • Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe, Reflections on the South African Experience