Beyond Truth Commissions: Indigenous Reconciliation in Uganda
Joanna Quinn Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Post-conflict reconciliation helps societies move from war to peace and from repression to democracy by repairing relationships and social structures. Unfortunately, many of the Western-style reconciliation mechanisms that have been created and implemented in non-Western contexts by national and international bodies, such as international criminal tribunals and truth commissions, have at times proven unable to promote genuine social repair. They have been too culturally alien to yield the desired transformative effect.
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