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Offers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace'
dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both
peace and accountability, specifically in African countries
affected by conflict or political violence. The chapters in this
volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and
peacebuilding. These include not only domestic courts and
tribunals, hybrid tribunals, or the International Criminal Court,
but also truth commissions and informal or non-state justice and
conflict resolution processes. Taken together, they demonstrate the
wealth of experiences and experimentation in transitional justice
processes on the continent. CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM is Professor of
Human Rights at the School of Law, University of East London,
United Kingdom. She is also the Chair of the International Studies
Association Human Rights Section and consults on issues of
governance and conflict prevention for the United Nations
Development Programme. SUREN PILLAY is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western
Cape, South Africa, and a Senior Research Specialistin the
Democracy and Governance programme of the Human Sciences Research
Council. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Botswana & Namibia): University of KwaZulu-Natal
Press
The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the
often unspoken connection between the powerful call for a
political-cultural renaissance that emerged with the end of South
African apartheid and the popular revolts of 2011 that dramatically
remade the landscape in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Looking between
southern and northern Africa, the transcontinental line from Cape
to Cairo that for so long supported colonialism, its chapters
explore the deep roots of these two decisive events and demonstrate
how they are linked by shared opposition to legacies of political,
economic, and cultural subjugation. As they work from African,
Islamic, and Western perspectives, the book's contributors shed
important light on a continent's difficult history and undertake a
critical conversation about whether and how the desire for radical
change holds the possibility of a new beginning for Africa, a
beginning that may well reshape the contours of global affairs.
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.
The changing situation in South Africa and eastern Europe prompts
Charles Villa-Vicencio to investigate the implications of
transforming liberation theology into a theology of reconstruction
and nation-building. Such a transformation, he argues, requires
theology to become an unambiguously inter-disciplinary study. This
book explores the encounter between theology, on the one hand, and
constitutional writing, law-making, human rights, economics, and
the freedom of conscience on the other. Locating his discussion in
the context of the South African struggle, the author compares this
situation to that in eastern Europe, and the challenge of what is
happening in these situations is identified for contexts where 'the
empire has not yet crumbled'.
The question of reparation remains. As South Africa prepares to
enter its second decade of democracy, there are no easy answers
about how to best repair the damage inflicted by the past. The
wounds are deep and they haunt. If left unresolved, apartheid's
legacy of inequality may come to thwart ongoing efforts to build a
culture of human rights, nurture democratic politics, and move
forward with the project of reconciliation. A difficult concept and
an even more difficult process, reparation in South Africa appears
to require a sustained combination of resources, will power and
committed dialogue. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the TRC's
recommendations for reparation and the ensuing public debate over
their implementation, To Repair the Irreparable features over
twenty essays from leading commentators about the past, present,
and future of reparation in South Africa. What are the benefits and
limits of current reparation policy? How can South Africa best
balance the demands of reparation, democracy-building and justice?
How does the South African experience contribute to international
debates over reparation? What is the best way to resolve ongoing
debates over land redistribution, the reconstruction of civil
society, the promise of restorative justice, and the legal disputes
that surround calls for reparation? These problems are urgent. For
both citizen and scholar, this book makes an important case for why
reparation matters and offers a timely discussion of how South
Africa can best continue the work of reconstruction.
The changing situation in South Africa and eastern Europe prompts
Charles Villa-Vicencio to investigate the implications of
transforming liberation theology into a theology of reconstruction
and nation-building. Such a transformation, he argues, requires
theology to become an unambiguously inter-disciplinary study. This
book explores the encounter between theology, on the one hand, and
constitutional writing, law-making, human rights, economics, and
the freedom of conscience on the other. Locating his discussion in
the context of the South African struggle, the author compares this
situation to that in eastern Europe, and the challenge of what is
happening in these situations is identified for contexts where 'the
empire has not yet crumbled'.
The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the
often unspoken connection between the powerful call for a
political-cultural renaissance that emerged with the end of South
African apartheid and the popular revolts of 2011 that dramatically
remade the landscape in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Looking between
southern and northern Africa, the transcontinental line from Cape
to Cairo that for so long supported colonialism, its chapters
explore the deep roots of these two decisive events and demonstrate
how they are linked by shared opposition to legacies of political,
economic, and cultural subjugation. As they work from African,
Islamic, and Western perspectives, the book's contributors shed
important light on a continent's difficult history and undertake a
critical conversation about whether and how the desire for radical
change holds the possibility of a new beginning for Africa, a
beginning that may well reshape the contours of global affairs.
This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the
lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against
apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine
Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural
leaders share the beliefs and values that informed the moral
positions they adopted, often at great cost. From all ethnic,
religious, and political backgrounds, these men and women have
shaped one of the greatest political transformations of the
century.
What emerges from the interviews are reflections on all aspects of
life in an embattled country. There are stories of the homelands
and townships, and tales of imprisonment and exile. Dedicated
communists relate their intense youthful devotion to Christianity;
Muslim activists discuss the complexity of their relationships with
their communities. As the respondents grapple with difficult
questions about faith, politics, and authority, they expose a more
personal picture: of their daily lives, of their pasts, and of the
enormous conflicts that arise in a society that continually strains
the moral fiber of its citizens. Taken together, these interviews
reveal the many-faceted vision that has fueled South Africa's
struggle for democracy.
The initial religious encounters between settlers in southern
Africa and the indigenous inhabitants entailed the establishment of
settler churches and the relationships with their home countries.
However, this era saw little by way of the spread of Christianity.
In 1799, with the arrival of Johannes van der Kemp and other
missionaries from the London Missionary Society, Christianity began
to cross colonial boundaries, marking the great era of missions in
southern Africa. At the outset, the missionary presence remained
precariously perched between success and failure. While missionary
influence among the indigenous peoples was relatively
insignificant, the opposite was true within the colony. At the same
time, expansion pressures from the Cape precipitated growing
conflict between settlers and indigenous peoples. Increasingly,
missionaries were caught between the interests of indigenous
peoples and those of the colony. For the most part, they sided with
their colonial heritage and roots, but in some significant
instances, their identification with indigenous people led them to
take extremely unpopular stands against both Boer and British
colonial authority. Such conflicts are traced at various levels
throughout this book. The broader spread of Christianity during
this period is also examined through multiple voices and stories.
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