The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Dialogic Healing or Gross Injustice?

• In Event: Interpersonal Relationships, Emotion and Conflict Management Strategies

Abstract

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was designed to meet multiple goals including healing and nation building in post apartheid South Africa. It has been hailed as a moment of healing and as a gross oversight of justice. This is an examination of the TRC as a form of dialogic healing. It will examine three cases of the TRC to attempt to ascertain whether there was a dialogic moment between the victims’ families and the perpetrators.

Author

• Tori Lockler, University of South Florida