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Overcoming Apartheid Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? / James L. Gibson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, James L., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission--History.
- South Africa.
- Truth--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Truth.
- Reconciliation--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Reconciliation.
- Amnesty--South Africa.
- Amnesty.
- Human rights--Government policy--South Africa.
- Human rights.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- South Africa--Race relations--Government policy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (484 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Perhaps no country in history has so directly and thoroughly confronted its past in an effort to shape its future as has South Africa.Working from the belief that understanding the past will help build a more peaceful and democratic future, South Africa has made a concerted, institutionalized effort to come to grips with its history of apartheid.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation?
- Chapter 2. Apartheid's Legacy in Contemporary South Africa: Experiences, Attributes, and Attitudes of the Sample
- Chapter 3. South African Collective Memories
- Chapter 4. Interracial Reconciliation
- Chapter 5. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture
- Chapter 6. Tolerance: The Minimalist View of Reconciliation
- Chapter 7. Judging the Fairness of Amnesty
- Chapter 8. The Legitimacy of the Political Institutions of the New South Africa
- Chapter 9. Lessons for South Africa's Future and for the World
- Appendix A: The Design of the Survey
- Appendix B: The Questionnaire
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-456) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-247-4
- OCLC:
- 835507661
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