Institute Databases
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation regularly updates and maintains databases and article collections on a number of pertinent issues:
The Economic Transformation Audit
Each year the IJR publishes the Economic Transformation Audit, to measure how far South Africa has come in constructing economic justice - and how far we still have to go. To access a collection of documents related to SA's political and socio-economic transformation, please click here.
Transitional Justice Literature Database
A bridge between the past and the future, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) stands both as a mechanism of the negotiated revolution that ended apartheid and an historic symbol of justice and reconciliation in transition. It also serves as a reminder that such endeavours are made up of an uneasy mixture of painful hindsight and patient hope, amnesty and reparation, acknowledgement and forgiveness, memory and forgetting, justice and reconciliation.
This bibliography emerges out of that context. It is intended to document and support critical inquiry into the nature of South African truth and reconciliation processes as well as the growing international field of transitional justice. Gathering work from diverse disciplines and perspectives - politics, theology, sociology, history, philosophy etc. - its central aim is to facilitate dialogue and comparative inquiry.
Jurisprudence and legal argument should be grounded in engagement with such inter-disciplinary dialogue. And the dialectic between the theory and practice of socio-political transformation should remain open.
The Institute acknowledges with gratitude the funding of the Lilly Foundation and the support and co-operation it has enjoyed with the Journal of Law and Religion, in particular with Marie Failinger and Howard Vogel, throughout this project. A hardcopy version of the bibliography was first published in the Journal of Law and Religion Vol. XVI, No. 1, 2001 and can be ordered by sending an e-mail. The online option was developed both to make the hundred-plus page bibliography searchable as well as to allow for periodic updating as the literature in the prolific field of transitional justice grows. We therefore invite further suggestions, comment and dialogue.