Perspectives on Reconciliation

- produced by Jael Humphrey-Skomer and Shirin Bakhshay

List of websites referenced in presentation

1. Information about documentary on Siphiwo Mtimkhulu:

http://www.filmmaker.co.za/edition/news_page.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1082713057&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&

2. TRC decision denying amnesty to killers of Cradock Four:

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/991215914a1014.htm

3. CALDH website about the Association for Justice and Reconciliation:

http://www.justiceforgenocide.org/actors02.html

4. Brandon Hamber & Hugo van der Merwe, “What Is This Thing Called Reconciliation?,” Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, a discussion of different perspectives on reconciliation:

http://www.csvr.org.za/articles/artrcbh.htm

5. Guatemala, Reconciliation after Violent Conflict, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance:

http://www.idea.int/publications/reconciliation/index.cfm

6. South Africa’s Act 34, Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995:

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/legal/act9534.htm

7. Historical overview of apartheid in South Africa:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html

8. African National Congress website:

www.anc.org.za

9. Pan Africanist Congress website:

www.paca.org.za

10. Inkatha Freedom Party website:

www.ifp.org.za

11. Biography of F.W. de Klerk:

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1993/klerk-bio.html

12. Biography of Nelson Mandela:

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela.html

13. South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report:

http://www.info.gov.za/reports/2003/trc/index.html

14. The Center for Human Rights Legal Action website:

http://www.caldh.org

15. Brief political history of Guatemala:

www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/guatemala/history.html

16. CIA involvement in 1954 Guatemala Coup: Electronic Reading Room:

www.foia.cia.gov/guatemala.asp

17. Agreement on the establishment of the Commission to clarify past human rights violations and acts of violence that have caused the Guatemalan population to suffer:

www.guatemala-embassy.org/peaceaccordsclarification.php

18. Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification Final Report:

http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/

19. Information about REHMI and Monsignor Gerardi:

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~sss4407/Gerardi.htm

20. Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification Final Report, “Memory in Silence”:

http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/report/spanish/

21. Brandon Hamber, The Need for a Survivor-Centered Approach

to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation:

http://www.csvr.org.za/articles/artrcdrt.htm

22. Amnesty International alert on acts of intimidation in Guatemala:

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR340142004?open&of=ENG-GTM

23. Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions, Truth Commissions Project, provides a comparison of factors of amnesty:

http://www.truthcommission.org/factor.php?fid=6&lang=en

24. Transcripts from amnesty hearings and amnesty decisions:

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/index.htm

25. Anthea Jeffery, The Truth about the Truth Commission, provides some criticisms of the South African TRC:

www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring00humanrights/jeffrey.html

26. Alexa Smith, Guatemala’s Amnesty Law Brings Cautious Hope to Civil War Victims, Presbyterian News Service, discusses the National Reconciliation Law:

http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/oldnews/1997/97169.htm

27. Human Rights Watch report about impunity in Guatemala:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/01/13/guatem9849.htm

28. CALDH website about the genocide cases against Rios Montt and Lucas Garcia:

http://www.justiceforgenocide.org/genocide.html

29. Biography of Frank LaRue:

http://www.trocaire.org/newsandinformation/guatemala/franklarue.htm

30. Mary Jordan, Facing Charges, Not Discomforts, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2005, article about Rios Montt:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57581-2005Jan7.html

31. Transitional Justice: Reparations, Prosecutions & Amnesty - Debate, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, provides a discussion of the TRC’s unfinished business:

http://www.ijr.org.za/sa_mon/tjusti_d.html

32. The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation website:

http://www.tutufoundation-usa.org/home.html