Reconciliation shifted in South Africa during the transition from being a contested idea in the church struggle to a notion proposed and rejected by the fighting parties and finally embraced by the two main political protagonists when they reached an agreement on the transition to a democratic order. This article analyses the layered meaning of the reconciliation concept within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On the basis of this description the questions that will be explored are whether reconciliation functioned as a religious symbol at the trc, and if so, in what way. In the conclusion, the way the concept of reconciliation itself was transformed due to the role it played in the transition in South Africa will be summarized and the consequences for theological research will be indicated.
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Priscilla B. Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions (New York/Milton Park: Routledge, 2011), pp. 27–32 mentions South Africa as the first under ‘The Five Strongest Truth Commissions’.
E. Doxtader, With faith in the works of words: The Beginning of Reconciliation in South Africa, 1985–1995 (Claremont: David Philips Publishers, 2009), p. xi.
Ibid., p. 11.
E. Doxtader, With faith in the works of words, p. 215. For the full text and an interpretation of the post-amble to the interim constitution, see Ibid., pp. 211–7.
Ibid., pp. 228–38.
Ibid., p. 239.
Ibid., pp. 103–34.
J. de Gruchy, Reconciliation: Restoring Justice (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002), p. 25.
M. Shore, Religion and Conflict Resolution: Christianity and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2009), p. 100.
Ibid., pp. 127–8.
Ibid., p. 114.
Ibid., p. 119.
P. Gready, The Era of Transitional Justice: The Aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and Beyond (Milton Park/New York: Routledge, 2011), p. 195.
D. Tutu, No Future without Forgiveness (New York: Double Day, 1999), p. 82.
Ibid., pp. 73–7.
Ibid., pp. 206–30.
Ibid., pp. 173–4.
D. Tutu and M. Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World (New York: Harper Collins, 2014).
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Reconciliation shifted in South Africa during the transition from being a contested idea in the church struggle to a notion proposed and rejected by the fighting parties and finally embraced by the two main political protagonists when they reached an agreement on the transition to a democratic order. This article analyses the layered meaning of the reconciliation concept within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On the basis of this description the questions that will be explored are whether reconciliation functioned as a religious symbol at the trc, and if so, in what way. In the conclusion, the way the concept of reconciliation itself was transformed due to the role it played in the transition in South Africa will be summarized and the consequences for theological research will be indicated.
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