In the balance: South Africans debate reconciliation

About

Fanie du Toit is the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. He has written on and regularly engages with reconciliation and transitional justice processes in African countries such as South Africa Rwanda Kenya Sudan Liberia Burundi Mozambique Zimbabwe and Uganda. He has edited two volumes and authored of a number of journal articles shorter essays and book chapters. He regularly contributes to media debates both in print and on radio and television. He holds a D.Phil in Philosophy of Religion from Oxford University. Erik Doxtader is a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town. A past recipient of a MacArthur Foundation-Social Science Research Council Fellowship he has authored edited and co-edited a number of books and essays on the history and dynamics of reconciliation in South Africa including The Provocations of Amnesty (2003) To Repair the Irreparable: Reparation and Reconstruction in South Africa (2004) and Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa - The Fundamental Documents (2008) and With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa 1985-1995 (2009).