Conflict Resolution through Reconciliation
(Gebundene Ausgabe)
Revisiting the South African TRC and Germany’s dealing with the past after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- wbg Academic in der Verlag Herder GmbH
- 1. Auflage 2024
- Gebunden
- 252 Seiten
- ISBN: 978-3-534-64167-3
- Bestellnummer: P3641677
No future without recociliation
Forty years after the first free elections in South Africa in 1994 it is worth revisiting the TRC-process that was at the time evaluated as a shining example for conflict resolution through reconciliation. After the fall of the Wall, in the German context people have used the notion of reconciliation with reserve; they have preferred to describe the German endeavor in terms of the less symbolically pregnant notion of “working through the past” (“Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheit”). However, there are comparative key questions worth to revisit: What were the initial conditions for the respective reappraisal in both contexts? What options for actions (such as amnesty, truth commission, reparation etc.) were chosen in both countries and why? What rituals, rites or symbolic forms of expression accompany the processes of reappraisal? What are the results of the processes of dealing with the past that can be perceived in political reality? Was reconciliation achieved in Germany or South Africa?
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Autor
Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg is Chair of Protestant Theology specializing in Systematic and Historical Theology at the European University of Flensburg (EUF) and Director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; he is also a Visiting fellow at the Universities of Cambridge (St Edmund’s College) and Stellenbosch (Theological Faculty), in 2002–2003 he was a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City and from 2005–2009 Guest professor at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr. Wüstenberg also conducted research on political Reconciliation in South Africa between 1996 and 1999 (University of Cape Town). He is the author and editor of 26 titles in German, English and Portuguese language, including introductions to theology and Christology; on current topics such as the political dimension of reconciliation or the dialogue with Islam, and on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics.