Book: No future without forgiveness
In the first few chapters (especially chapters 2-4) of No Future Without Forgiveness, Desmond Tutu explains how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission came to be in South Africa. There is a lot of information given about a very complicated process. So let’s help each other break it down.
What are some of the stand-out things about how and why the TRC emerged in the way it did? (As Tutu describes it, a “third way” between trials (similar to Nuremberg) and blanket/national amnesia.) What are some of the challenges they encountered along the way?