Effective peace agreements are rarely accomplished by idealists.
The process of moving from situations of entrenched oppression,
armed conflict, open warfare, and mass atrocities toward peace and
reconciliation requires a series of small steps and compromises to
open the way for the kind of dialogue and negotiation that make
political stability, the beginning of democracy, and the rule of
law a possibility.
For over forty years, Charles Villa-Vicencio has been on the
front lines of Africa's battle for racial equality. In "Walk with
Us and Listen," he argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to
promote trust building and enable former enemies and adversaries to
explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. He offers
a critical assessment of the South African experiment in
transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission and considers the influence of "ubuntu," in which
individuals are defined by their relationships, and other
traditional African models of reconciliation. Political
reconciliation is offered as a cautious model against which
transitional politics needs to be measured. Villa-Vicencio
challenges those who stress the obligation to prosecute those
allegedly guilty of gross violation of human rights, replacing this
call with the need for more complementarity between the
International Criminal Court and African mechanisms to achieve the
greater goals of justice and peace building.
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