Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190881856 |
ISBN 10 | 0190881852 |
Author | Chief Technical Advisor for Reconciliation Fanie Du Toit |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | In When Political Transitions Work, Fanie du Toit develops a coherent and versatile theory of reconciliation-as-interdependence, based on the assumption that a state's success is inextricably linked to their enemies, and a policy of mutual w |
About the Author | Fanie du Toit is the Chief Technical Advisor for Reconciliation at the UNDP Iraq office since 2016 when he stepped down as the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in Cape Town, South Africa. His main interest, as practitioner and scholar, is on the relationship between reconciliation and transitional justice processes in societies emerging from conflict and political oppression. In 1995, he completed a Doctoral Degree in Philosophy of Religion at Oxford University-focusing on religious truth in plural societies. In 2007, he received UNESCO's International Prize for Peace Education on behalf of the IJR, for work done on post-apartheid curriculum development, mainly in the areas of history and civic education. In 2014, he was appointed Honorary Associate Professor to UCT's Department of Political Studies. |
Publication Date | 2018-08-24 |
Number of Pages | 312 pages |
When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence