Introduction: Silence after violence and the imperative to ‘speak out’

From text: During the 1980s, a new dilemma emerged in various democratising nations, mostly in the global south: how should a repressive and violent past bedealt with in the context and as a constitutive part of democratisation?(Borneman 1997). The problem of the uses and abuses of the past instrug...

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Main Authors: Anja Henebury, Yehonatan Alsheh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2015-01-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1477