Domains targeting keyword truth and reconciliation commission

Website of Brandon Hamber: Professor Brandon Hamber is Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) base at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He was also a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Human and Community Development, and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (2011-2013). He remains an Associate of the African Centre for Migration and Society in South Africa, and is a member of the Transitional Justice Institute in Ulster University.

I am a senior research professor at the University of the Free State. I served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as coordinator of victims’ public hearings in the Western Cape.In that role, I participated in, and facilitated encounters between family members of victims of gross human rights and perpetrators responsible for these human rights abuses. Since serving on the TRC and witnessing some of the unexpected outcomes of the TRC’s public hearings process and public dialogue about the past, I have been interested in this question: what features of the TRC process were effective in opening up the possibility of transformation?

The Indigenous Perspectives Society, formerly the Caring for First Nations Children Society, is a not-for-profit organization that strengthens the voice of Indigenous communities through education and professional development.