Truth Without Reconciliation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth Without Reconciliation write by Abena Ampofoa Asare. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Truth Without Reconciliation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies the documents, testimonies, and petitions gathered by Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission as a portal to an unprecedented public archive of Ghanaian political history as told by the self-described survivors of human rights abuse.
No Future Without Forgiveness
No Future Without Forgiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Future Without Forgiveness write by Desmond Tutu. This book was released on 2009-02-04. No Future Without Forgiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience. In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past. But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation "looks the beast in the eye." Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another, and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. With a clarity of pitch born out of decades of experience, Tutu shows readers how to move forward with honesty and compassion to build a newer and more humane world.
Speaking Our Truth
Speaking Our Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking Our Truth write by Monique Gray Smith. This book was released on 2017-09-19. Speaking Our Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary write by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. This book was released on 2015-07-22. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia write by Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians. Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace agreements to promote justice and coexistence for peace. This volume brings together reflections by Colombian academics and practitioners alongside pieces provided by researchers and practitioners in other countries where transitional justice initiatives have taken place (Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Peru). This volume has been written in the south, by the south, for the south. The book engages with the challenges ahead for the coming generations of Colombians. Rivers of ink have dealt with the end goals of transitional justice, but victims require us to take the quest for human rights beyond the normative realm of theorizing justice and into the practical realm of engaging how to implement justice initiatives. The tension between theory—the legislative frameworks guaranteeing human rights—and practice—the realization of these ideas—will frame Colombia’s success (or failure) in consolidating the implementation of the peace agreements with the FARC-EP.
