Truth or reconciliation? A response to Theo de Wit

Rethinking Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Introduction: Truth Commissions and Memory Practice 2 Conflict, Recovery, and Social Forgetting in Sierra Leone 3 Studying Truth Commissions Ethnographically 5 “Revealing is Healing”? 6 Memory Practices and Sierra Leone’s TRC 7 Forgiving and Forgetting 8 Accountability vs. Reintegration 11 Recommendations 12 ABOUT THE REPORT As the international community reflects on the tragedy in Rwanda ten y...

Narrating Political Reconciliation: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

This article enquires into the narration of reconciliation in South Africa and its political implications. It scrutinizes the subjects, objects and material practices that flow from the reconciliation story. The investigation turns on two crucial assumptions: (a) that discourse is an ideological system of meaning that constitutes and naturalizes the subjects and objects of political life, and (...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

This article examines the ongoing work of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which is charged with addressing that country’s past policy of attempting forcibly to assimilate indigenous children in residential schools. It examines the TRC’s mandate and its activities while assessing the Commission’s conceptions of truth and reconciliation by placing these ideas in their soci...

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?