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Wilson Richard A

The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001 - 271p x

Contents
1. Human rights and nation-building;
2. Technologies of truth : the TRC's truth-making machine;
3. The politics of truth and human rights;
4. Reconciliation through truth?;
5. Reconciliation in society : religious values and procedural pragmatism;
6. Vengeance, revenge and retribution;
7. Reconciliation with a vengeance;
8. Conclusions : human rights, reconciliation and retribution.

ISBN: 9780521802192

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Truth & Reconciliation Commission - South Africa 2. Reconciliation - Political Aspects - South Africa.3. Apartheid - South Africa4. Retribution - South Africa5. Politics & Government - 1994 - South Africa6. Race Relations - South Africa

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800000 / WIL