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Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Flowers are placed alongside a photo of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa
Obituary
Cape Town bells toll to honor Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s life
Attendees perform a round dance during a press conference and prayer vigil at the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School, one of the last residential schools to close its doors in Canada in 1997 and the last fully intact residential school still sta
Conflict & Justice
What the US can learn from Canada’s commission on Indigenous residential schools
A member of South Africa's opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), wears a red shirt and chants outside the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 8, 2020. 
Justice
What South Africa can teach the US about racial justice and reconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation
Culture
South Africa’s imperfect progress, 20 years after the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Scene in Elsie's River, one of the Cape Flats communities on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa
Truth & reconciliation in South Africa, revisited
Full Episode
Joe Stewart and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, both descendants of people sold as slaves by Georgetown University, visit the school on September 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Justice
Lessons from South Africa as Georgetown attempts reparations for slavery
Global Politics
Brazil’s government establishes ‘Truth Commission,’ but expectations are low
Liberia reacts to President’s Nobel Peace Prize
Conflict & Justice
Brazil’s Truth Commission Under Fire from Military and Torture Victims
Global Politics
Chile’s Transition to Democracy: Lessons for the Arab Spring
Global Politics
Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize