Political forgiveness : lessons from South Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Daye, Russell. |
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| Imprint: | Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2004. |
| Description: | xiv, 210 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5082422 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1.. Introduction
- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- The Nature of Forgiveness
- 2.. Theoretical Issues
- Interpersonal Forgiveness
- Political Forgiveness
- 3.. Historical Overview
- 1948-1994: The Apartheid Era
- The New Dispensation
- 4.. Act One: Truth-telling
- The Need for Truth
- Finding a Way to Name the Harm Done
- The Promise, Limits, and Structure of Truth-telling
- Truth-telling at the TRC
- Lessons from the HRV Investigations
- The HRV Investigations and Forgiveness
- 5.. Act Two: Apology and the Claiming of Responsibility
- An Almost-Apology Backfires
- Nicolas Tavuchis's Sociology of Apology
- Personal and Public Apology at the TRC
- Apology and Moral Community
- Accepting Responsibility: A Step beyond Truth-telling
- 6.. Act Three: Building a Transitional-Justice Framework Part 1: The Amnesty Option
- The Individual Amnesty Adjudicated by the TRC
- 7.. Act Three: Building a Transitional-Justice Framework Part Two: Revenge and Restoration
- Our Ambivalent Relationship with Revenge
- Retributive Emotions and Retributive Justice
- Restorative Justice
- Transitional Justice in South Africa
- The Restoration and Celebration of the Dignity of Victims
- The Implementation of Measures to Ensure Accountability
- The Entrenchment, Upholding, and Protection of Human Rights
- The Implementation of Measures to Advance Distributive Justice
- The Prevention of Revenge-taking and Other Forms of Violence
- Conclusion
- 8.. Act Four: Finding Ways to Heal
- The Traumatized Nation
- Healing and the TRC
- Reparations
- 9.. Act Five: Embracing Forgiveness
- Exclusion and Embrace--The Theology of Miroslav Volf
- Delicate Networks of Interdependence--The Theology of Desmond Tutu
- 10.. Conclusion
- A Final Word about the TRC
- A Final Word about the Model
- Applying the Model to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Applying the Model to Northern Ireland
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
