Walk with us and listen : political reconciliation in Africa / Charles Villa-Vicencio ; foreword by Desmond Tutu.
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TextPublication details: Cape Town, South Africa : UCT Press, 2009. Description: xiv, 225 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9781919895307Subject(s): South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Africa | Transitional justice -- Africa | Peace-building -- Africa | Human rights -- Africa | Africa -- Race relationsDDC classification: 323.49096 VILL Summary: "For over 40 years, Charles Villa-Vicencio has been on the front lines of Africa's battle for racial equality. In Walk with Us and Listen, he argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to promote trust-building and enable former enemies and adversaries to explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. He offers a critical assessment of the South African experiment in transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and considers the influence of ubuntu, in which individuals are defined by their relationships, and other traditional African models of reconciliation. Political reconciliation is offered as a cautious model against which transitional politics needs to be measured. Villa-Vicencio challenges those who stress the obligation to prosecute those allegedly guilty of gross violation of human rights, replacing this call with the need for more complementarity between the International Criminal Court and African mechanisms to achieve the greater goals of justice and peace-building"--UCT Press website.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-211) and index.
"For over 40 years, Charles Villa-Vicencio has been on the front lines of Africa's battle for racial equality. In Walk with Us and Listen, he argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to promote trust-building and enable former enemies and adversaries to explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. He offers a critical assessment of the South African experiment in transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and considers the influence of ubuntu, in which individuals are defined by their relationships, and other traditional African models of reconciliation. Political reconciliation is offered as a cautious model against which transitional politics needs to be measured. Villa-Vicencio challenges those who stress the obligation to prosecute those allegedly guilty of gross violation of human rights, replacing this call with the need for more complementarity between the International Criminal Court and African mechanisms to achieve the greater goals of justice and peace-building"--UCT Press website.
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