Trading Justice for Peace? is now available open access. Free download here: https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/174
The chapters in this volume reveal the challenges, complexities and nuances of rectifying past and present injustices in order to transform societies. For a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be considered trustworthy by those who have suffered, it cannot compromise justice for the sake of peace that is nothing more than a ‘cheap, deceptive’ reconciliation. (Regan, Solomons and Guðmarsdóttir, p. 273)
Trading Justice for Peace? brings to fruition a research partnership between VID Specialized University, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the VST, Canada, including scholars and practitioners from South Africa, Canada, and across Nordic countries. The volume was presented by the co-editors on May 5th at the research conference “Reconciliation without the majority?” convened at VID Oslo, Norway. Watch the book launch event here (timeslot 5:28:00 – 6:00:00).
Contents
Introduction
Trading justice for peace? Perils and possibilities
Demaine Solomons, Paulette Regan, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
Part One: Negotiating truth, justice and reconciliation: TRC mandates, processes and legacies
Chapter 1
Negotiating the meaning of ‘TRC’ in the Norwegian context
Tore Johnsen
Chapter 2
Canada’s TRC: An ‘unsettling’ Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model
Paulette Regan
Chapter 3
Reconciliation recommended: On the anchoring of TRC proposals
Kjell-Åke Nordquist
Chapter 4
Reconciliation as an outcome rather than an intention
Stanley Henkeman
Part Two: No reconciliation without justice: Indigenous rights, resurgence, self-determination and territorial lands
Chapter 5
Justice twenty-one years post-TRC! Can a theology of reconstruction assist us to regain our focus on reconciliation and justice?
Christo H. Thesnaar
Chapter 6
When justice has borders: Some reflections on national borders in relation to the TRC in Norway
Lovisa M. Sjöberg, Mikkel N. Sara
Chapter 7
Prospects and challenges for reconciliation: Implementing the TRC calls to action
David B. MacDonald
Chapter 8
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: An invitation to boldness
Sheryl Lightfoot
Part Three: Re-storying national histories: Counter-narratives of social memory and justice
Chapter 9
Narrative and truth and reconciliation
John Klaasen
Chapter 10
Reburial of Sami human remains as ritualised reconciliation
Daniel Lindmark
Chapter 11
Records as instruments of truth, justice and reconciliation – Disrupting colonialism in archival praxis
Elizabeth Shaffer
Part Four: Histories of violence and trauma: negotiating identity, responsibility and accountability for redress and reconciliation
Chapter 12
Steve Biko as a ‘Christian’: A contribution to ethnic and racial reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa
Eugene Baron
Chapter 13
Social justice, white beneficiaries and the South African TRC
Wilhelm Verwoerd
Chapter 14
Unsettling ‘perpetrators’: Comrade memories of complex violence and the South African TRC
Kim Wale
Chapter 15
Building thin sympathetic engagement to foster truth commission success
Joanna R. Quinn
Conclusion
Forging transnational pathways for reconciliation
Paulette Regan, Demaine Solomons, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir