Links and Resources
Site of the now-suspended Commission.
Organization for which Dr. Villa-Vicencio works promoting its ideals of reconciliation and social reconstruction, Africa & transitional justice, and analysis and communication.
South African government site providing a PDF version of the Commission's final report (March 2003).
Provides a transcript of an address presented by Dr. Villa-Vicencio at the the University of Chicago Divinity School.
The United States Institute of Peace offers archived audio of a roundtable discussion on September 21, 2004 with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. She discusses the positive impact public spaces can have on the road to healing between victims and their perpetrators.
Audio conversation with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about reparations determined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (April 2003).
An online forum for photographers displays a series of photos and audio covering events of the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings by the photographer Jillian Edelstein (Sep/Nov 1999).
Transcript of speech presenting Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk with the award.
Concise background and history of the first black president of South Africa, provided by the African National Congress.
A collection sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace containing decrees establishing truth commissions and similar bodies of inquiry worldwide, and the reports issued by such groups.
Web site, supported by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the European Centre for Common Ground, that offers architects of future truth commissions a means of identifying critical factors and potential sources for successful outcomes.
A PBS television documentary presenting stories told to the TRC and interviews with victims, perpetrators, leaders, and journalists.
Article written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and published in Sojourners Magazine about the important steps needing to be taken so individuals can heal a national wound.
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Villa-Vicencio is executive director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, and the former National Research Director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Gobodo-Madikizela is a psychologist who served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and author of A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness.
