Thursday, September 27
Truth & Reconciliation: Liberia After the War
Co-sponsored by College of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Reporter,
and the United World College-USA/Bartos Institute.
The Forum, College of Santa Fe
7:00 PM
Free Admission
Friday, September 28
Truth & Reconciliation: Liberia After the War
Kluge Auditorium, United World College Campus
7:00 PM
Free Admission
Truth and Reconciliation Process was used in post-apartheid South
Africa to allow war crimes victims to publicly tell their stories,
and for perpetrators to admit to and ask for forgiveness of their
crimes. The process is 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,
the West African nation of Liberia - which was founded as a constitutional
democracy by freed American slaves - is undergoing the same process
after a series of gruesome civil wars.
This lecture by Samuel Toe, Hearings Officer of the Liberian Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, will explore the progress of the
commission in its efforts to bring widespread healing and forgiveness
between the nation's war-torn peoples.
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