Struggling to Forgive examines aspects of South Africa's past, present, and future through the lens of forgiveness. Brian Frost explores how forgiveness relates to seven themes: reconciliation, remembering, repentance, restitution/repairing, healing, justice, and love. Each theme is pursued in a chapter through examining particular facets of South African history, politics, or sociology. Frost …
Refugee Rights addresses one of the most crucial issues concerning the plight of Africa since the 1980s. We warmly welcome the effort to explore the refugee issue from different perspectives: theological, ethical, legal, political, economic, and cultural. Such a holistic approach makes this book a seminal study in the attempt to understand our individual and collective responsibility vis-à-vis…
It is a book about the repression of the apartheid state and particularly the repressive structures and methods which were devised and refined by the Nasionalist government in South Africa at 1948.
Compilation of papers presented at a seminar organised by the Kairos Foundation (Ecumenical Advice and Information Centre on South Africa) In cooperation with the Africa Studies Centre Leiden University), the Netherlands Institute for Sounthern Africa (NiZA), the Netherlands-South Africa Society (NZAV), the Netherlands Institute of Human Tights (SIM), 27 November 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-405) and index. The role of international actors in national accountability processes / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- Settling accounts with the past in a troubled transition to democracy: the Portuguese case / António Costa Pinto --Justice, politics and memory in the Spanish transition / Paloma Aguilar --Truth, justice, memory, and democratization …