When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence

ISBN-13: 9780190881856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Fanie Du Toit

Opis

In When Political Transitions Work, Fanie du Toit develops a coherent and versatile theory of reconciliation-as-interdependence, based on the assumption that a state's success is inextricably linked to their enemies, and a policy of mutual well-being is the surest and shortest path to prosperity and peace for both.

Recenzje

Mostly about the South African transition from apartheid to independence and its current state of post-reconciliation disquiet and dissatisfaction, this thoughtful book sets out useful general theoretical constructs and examines the relationship of reconciliation to independence and interdependence.

O autorze

Fanie du Toit is the Chief Technical Advisor for Reconciliation at the UNDP Iraq office since 2016 when he stepped down as the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in Cape Town, South Africa. His main interest, as practitioner and scholar, is on the relationship between reconciliation and transitional justice processes in societies emerging from conflict and political oppression. In 1995, he completed a Doctoral Degree in Philosophy of Religion at Oxford University-focusing on religious truth in plural societies. In 2007, he received UNESCO's International Prize for Peace Education on behalf of the IJR, for work done on post-apartheid curriculum development, mainly in the areas of history and civic education. In 2014, he was appointed Honorary Associate Professor to UCT's Department of Political Studies.