Trading Justice for Peace? : : Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries / / Sigriður Guðmarsdóttir, Paulette Regan, Demaine Jason Solomons.
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensa...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cape Town, South Africa : : AOSIS,, 2021. |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations and Figures Appearing in the Text and Notes
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Trading justice for peace? Perils and possibilities
- Demaine Solomons, Paulette Regan & Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
- Book structure and themes
- Spelling variations of 'Sámi'
- A final word
- Part One: Negotiating truth, justice and reconciliation: TRC mandates, processes and legacies
- Chapter 1: Negotiating the meaning of 'TRC' in the Norwegian context Tore Johnsen
- Introduction
- Background: Settlement history, the Norwegianisation policy and the emergence of demands for a TRC
- Negotiating the status/Level of the Norwegian Investigation: Initial Pre-TRC Political Debates (2015-2017)
- Negotiating the interpretative horizon of the inquiry: The mandate and the troublesome name of the 'TRC' (2017-2018)
- Public-methodological implications of 'TRC: The first half of the implementation phase (2018-2020)
- The Value of Personal Testimonies for the TRC's Truth-seeking Is there a public dimension beyond gathering testimonies? 'Reconciliation' and the people-to-people perspective Concluding remarks: Suggestions and recommendations
- Chapter 2: Canada's TRC: An 'unsettling' Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model
- Paulette Regan
- Canada's TRC: A post-TRC reflection
- Indigenous peoples and TRCS in settler-colonial states: Trading justice for peace?
- Origins of Canada's TRC: Western transitional justice and ADR in a settler-colonial state
- Towards an Indigenous-centred TRC:
- The Commission's mandate, structure and operations An 'unsettling' Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model
- Post-TRC accountability on calls to action
- Conclusion: Transnational insights from Canada's TRC
- Chapter 3: Reconciliation recommended: On the anchoring of TRC proposals
- Kjell-Åke Nordquist
- Introduction
- The nature of recommendations - Two examples
- Canada
- South Africa
- From actor to proxy
- Political immunity?
- Reconciliation or forgiveness?
- Conflictual relations - Horizontal or not?
- A theoretical blunder?
- Three critical relationships
- Intragroup critics
- Bystanders
- Crossing the diagonal
- A negotiating TRC?
- A concluding word
- Chapter 4: Reconciliation as an outcome rather than an intention
- Stanley Henkeman
- Introduction
- Roots of reconciliation as we know it
- Broadening the framework
- Reconciliation imposed from the top
- Inverse approach - Reconciliation from below Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: An invitation to boldness
- Sheryl Lightfoot
- Introduction
- The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
- The bold move: A fundamental discursive shift
- A new landscape: Transformative change Conclusion
- Part Three: Re-storying national histories: Counter-narratives of social memory and justice
- Chapter 9: Narrative and truth and reconciliation
- John Klaasen
- Introduction
- Storytelling
- Overview of the establishment of the TRC
- Stories and 'storyscape' as methodology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: Reburial of Sami human remains as ritualised reconciliation
- Daniel Lindmark
- Introduction
- The Church-Sami reconciliation process Ritual as drama
- Earlier reburials of Sami human remains
- The removal and return of human remains from the old cemetery in Lycksele
- The Lycksele repatriation project as reconciliatory practice
- The reburial ceremony in Lycksele
- The reburial ceremony as ritualised reconciliation
- 'Restoration in reconciliation?"
- Reconciliation in theory and practice - A concluding discussion
- Chapter 11: Records as instruments of truth, justice and
- reconciliation - Disrupting colonialism in archival praxis Elizabeth Shaffer
- Introduction
- The Indian residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Truth commissions and records
- UNDRIP and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles
- The right to know and the duty to remember
- Engaging archival praxis
- The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC Conclusion
- Part Four: Histories of violence and trauma:
- negotiating identity, responsibility and accountability for redress and reconciliation
- Chapter 12: Steve Biko as a 'Christian': A contribution to ethnic and racial reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa Eugene Baron
- Introduction
- The legacy of racialisation in South Africa
- Black consciousness as an ethnic response
- Black consciousness as a socio-economic response
- Black consciousness as a theological response
- Biko's black consciousness response as a Christian response
- Biko's problem with Christianity
- South African hope: Ethnic reconciliation
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Social justice, white beneficiaries and the South African TRC
- Wilhelm Verwoerd
- 'Us? Beneficiaries of apartheid!? The very thought White beneficiaries: Pre- and post-1994
- White 'participants' pre-1994
- White beneficiaries, participants and perpetuators
- Between perpetration and implication - What about former white conscripts?
- Becoming white beneficiaries
- 'I am - The brutal thing itself: A little Benzien in each beneficiary?
- Chapter 14: Unsettling 'perpetrators': Comrade memories of complex violence and the South African TRC
- Kim Wale
- Introduction
- Haunted histories of squatter-comrade violence
- Unsettling hegemonic narratives and identities of past violence Squatter-comrades of Crossroads: 'Dented' memories of courage and fear
- The split between 'just' and 'unjust' violence
- The social-psychological trauma of a double unclaiming
- Reclaiming violence in the 'grey zone'
- Walking memories spiral: A continuous, dynamic, unsettling process
- Chapter 15: Building thin sympathetic engagement to foster
- truth commission success
- Joanna R. Quinn
- Introduction
- Three cases
- A different kind of violence Over and over and over
- Intervention: Thin sympathy
- In reverse
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Forging transnational pathways for reconciliation Paulette Regan, Demaine Solomons & Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
- References
- Index.