Examines the creation and implementation of South Africa's National
Peace Accord and this key transitional phase in the country's
history, and its implications for peace mediation and conflict
resolution. It is now 30 years since the National Peace Accord
(NPA) was signed in South Africa, bringing to an end the violent
struggle of the Apartheid era and signalling the transition to
democracy. Signed by the ANC Alliance, the Government, the Inkatha
Freedom Party and a wide range of other political and labour
organizations on 14 September 1991, the parties agreed in the NPA
on the common goal of a united, non-racial democratic South Africa,
and provided practical means for moving towards this end: codes of
conduct for political organizations and for the police, the
creation of national, regional and local peace structures for
conflict resolution, the investigation and prevention of violence,
peace monitoring, socio-economic reconstruction and peacebuilding.
This book, written by one of those involved in the process that
evolved, provides for the first time an assessment and in-depth
account of this key phase of South Africa's history. The National
Peace Campaign set up under the NPA mobilized the 'silent majority'
and gave peace an unprecedented grassroots identity and legitimacy.
The author describes the formulation of the NPA by political
representatives, with Church and business facilitators, which ended
the political impasse, constituted South Africa's first experience
of multi-party negotiations, and made it possible for the
constitutional talks (Codesa) to start. She examines the work of
the Goldstone Commission, which prefigured the TRC, as well as the
role of international observers from the UN, EU, Commonwealth and
OAU. Exploring the work of the peace structures set up to implement
the Accord - the National Peace Committee and Secretariat, the 11
Regional Peace Committees and 263 Local Peace Committees, and over
18,000 peace monitors - Carmichael provides a uniquely detailed
assessment of the NPA, the on-the-ground peacebuilding work and the
essential involvement of the people at its heart. Filling a
significant gap in modern history, this book will be essential
reading for scholars, students and others interested in South
Africa's post-Apartheid history, as well as government agencies and
NGOs involved in peacemaking globally.
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