TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: Liberia After the War Date: September 27, 2007 The Forum;
Length: 1 hr. 45 min.
As
modeled by post-apartheid South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation
Process allows war-crime victims to publicly tell their stories, and
for perpetrators to admit to and ask for forgiveness for their crimes.
The process was considered instrumental in that nation's progress from
apartheid to a democratic civil society and has since been adopted by
the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Today, after a series of
civil wars, the West African nation of Liberia — which was founded as a
constitutional democracy by freed American slaves — is undergoing the
same process. This lecture by Samuel Toe, Hearings Officer of the
Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, explores the progress
of the commission's efforts to bring widespread healing and forgiveness
to the nation's war-torn peoples.
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