NDLI: Prelapsarian State: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Transitional Justice

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Author	Moon, Claire
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Since South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), 'reconciliation' is now an authoritative discourse governing political transition. Reconciliation governs the 'moral reordering' of national communities in the wake of conflict and transition to more democratic regimes by enquiring into, and attempting to address, past gross violations of human rights perpetrated, in the main, against civilian populations by the state and its agents. Reconciliation eschews retributive justice in favour of 'restorative' modes of 'dealing with the past', and has come, broadly, to be institutionalised by the truth commission. South Africa's TRC animated theological discourses of forgiveness and Christian reconciliation in order to legitimise and endow with moral resonance the project of transitional justice. This article enquires into the political effects of such an animation, and investigates the performance of forgiveness and reconciliation as metaphor and narrative.
Starting Page	185
Ending Page	197
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09528059
Journal	International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728722
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Logic Philosophy of Law Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Law Theory/Law Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Linguistics and Language

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