عنوان

A Need for 'Truth'

شماره

LA113252

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Need for 'Truth'

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

André du Toit

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The origins of the South African trc process, which made such a dramatic contribution towards opening up a new more inclusive political culture in post-apartheid South Africa, are usually found in the constitutional negotiations and settlement reflected in the Postamble of the 1993 Interim Constitution. This article starts from the apparent paradox that a secretive amnesty pact by political elites could have been responsible for a public truth process uncovering human rights violations in past political conflicts. It suggests that an alternative trc genealogy may rather be found in the public amnesty debate since mid-1992 that issued in a civil society-based proposal for a truth and reconciliation process. The 'amnesty for truth' compromise, conjoining the political elites' concerns for amnesty with the human rights quest for a victim-based truth and reconciliation process, resulted in the incoherence of the actual trc process. The ambivalent legacy of the trc, shaped both by secretive elite political deals as well as by the quest for public truth in politics, still informs unresolved tensions in the Marikana Commission, and those between the Promotion of Access to Information Act and the controversial Protection of State Information Bill. The origins of the South African trc process, which made such a dramatic contribution towards opening up a new more inclusive political culture in post-apartheid South Africa, are usually found in the constitutional negotiations and settlement reflected in the Postamble of the 1993 Interim Constitution. This article starts from the apparent paradox that a secretive amnesty pact by political elites could have been responsible for a public truth process uncovering human rights violations in past political conflicts. It suggests that an alternative trc genealogy may rather be found in the public amnesty debate since mid-1992 that issued in a civil society-based proposal for a truth and reconciliation process. The 'amnesty for truth' compromise, conjoining the political elites' concerns for amnesty with the human rights quest for a victim-based truth and reconciliation process, resulted in the incoherence of the actual trc process. The ambivalent legacy of the trc, shaped both by secretive elite political deals as well as by the quest for public truth in politics, still informs unresolved tensions in the Marikana Commission, and those between the Promotion of Access to Information Act and the controversial Protection of State Information Bill.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

393-419

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

8/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

amnesty

اصطلاح موضوعی

transitional justice

اصطلاح موضوعی

truth and reconciliation

اصطلاح موضوعی

tumult commissions

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

André du Toit

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697320-12341365

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y