As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption
and racial tension, it seems as though they might be'evolving'into the kind of societies …

This research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects
funding scheme (project number DP0986984). This support was seriously enabling; without …

Paraphrasing Descartes, we may say that one method is to take the reader into your conf
idence by explaining to him how you arrived at your discovery; the other is to bully him into …

The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition
and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a …

Despite the increasing frequency of truth commissions, there has been little agreement as to
their long-term impact on a state's political and social development. This book uses a multi …

Do war crimes tribunals or truth commissions satisfy victims of war and atrocity and provide
psychological relief from war-induced trauma? Do they make victims less vengeful and less …

* Reframes major events like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the
Holocaust, and the war in Bosnia to take into account the" complex victim"* Calls for a more …

This article analyzes a category of truth-telling initiatives that emerge from civil society and
resemble, either self-consciously or coincidentally, official truth commissions such as those …

Can sports—and if so how—serve as a vehicle for reconciliation and increased social
cohesion in countries wrecked by civil conflict? This article analyses the case of South Africa …

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore
new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They …