Article: Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?(Book review)

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James Gibson. Russell Sage Foundation, 448 pp., $47.50.

ANYONE ENGAGED in conflict resolution, whether interpersonal or international, would agree that the process must begin with truth telling. But can truth telling be more than a beginning? Can it create a political environment hospitable to both perpetrator and victim?

Countries emerging from civil wars or other disruptive internal violence face the challenge of rebuilding their state in such a way that it will be habitable for people on different sides of the conflict as well as for those who had the misfortune of simply living in a ...

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