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Reconciliation & Reconstruction
Remembering, Reconciling, Reconstructing
The Reconciliation and Social Reconstruction programme seeks to promote processes of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has offered both insights and warnings in this regard, while constituting only a first step. Following political developments over the first decade of democracy, key priorities have been identified, resulting in a range of research projects and social interventions.
Currently, the work of the programme is organized in three broad clusters:
Building an Inclusive Society, Education for Reconciliation and Memory, Art and Healing.
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The Institute has committed itself, through the Building an Inclusive Society project, to work with communities, policy-makers and political groupings to develop ways of enabling former enemies, adversaries and many who simply do not know one another to learn to live together in peaceful co-existence and democratic practice.
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This cluster strives to create, record, and empower the expression of memory. It is designed to afford all South Africans the opportunity to tell their stories, undertake the work of making memory and crafting a common future. It seeks to promote the recollection, affirmation of memories, the writing and recording of stories, biographies and autobiographies, the exploring of appropriate forms of memorialisation, and the engagement of people – including conciliatory dialogue between victims and perpetrators.
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Education is a key component of rebuilding South African society. Hard skills are in demand, but so too democratic values and reconciliation. This project empowers teachers and learners to study together in a spirit of understanding and respect.
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Reconciliation and Reconstruction Archives
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