The South African experience is unique in that the "war" was a long drawn out process of legislated oppression of white over black. This ideology of oppression was upheld for over forty years and had a far-reaching impact on all South Africans. For this reason, the challenge of transforming South Africa from an oppressice apartheid state to a liberated democratic society is both political and psychological.

This project sought to offer an understanding of the lives of political perpetrators in order to make it possible for the new democratic political community of South Africa, to acknowledge this past and to ensure, through the democratic process, that such violations of human rights never reoccur.

Outcomes include

• A publication entitled, Theatre of Violence- Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict, based on some first hand accounts and expert analyses, as well as ongoing mediation between perpetrators from different political backgrounds.
• A video Engaging the Enemy that explores ways that former enemies learn to work together. It focuses on two men, one former intellgence officer in the South African Police and the other an operative in the African National Congress' Department of Intelligence and Security.