Podcasts about south africa's truth

How do you reconcile irreconcilable differences? Last week, ICS Academic Dean Gideon Strauss joined us to share a bit about his own experiences in both apartheid and post-apartheid South African politics. This week, we're sharing with you the second half of this interview, in which Gideon reflects on the time he spent with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Critical Faith is sponsored by the Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics (CPRSE) at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. For more, visit www.icscanada.edu. Music by Matt Bernico.

The Context of White Supremacy hosts our monthly Global Sunday Talk On Racism. This program is specifically constructed to encourage participation from Victims of Racisms outside the United States and/or non-white people who are unable to call-in during our standard broadcast time. This week marks the one year anniversary of the Terrorist attack on Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church. The ruthless slaughter of nine black parishioners was practically ignored with the unrelenting coverage of the terrorist rampage on a gay Orlando, Florida nightclub. We're most anxious to hear how these events are being discussed outside the United States. We'll explore how the Florida attack was related to the murder of English lawmaker Jo Cox. Her alleged killer is reported to have links to a "neo-nazi" (White Supremacist) organization. We'll review the 20 year reflection on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission - which was tasked with gathering details about the barbarism of apartheid. South Africa is also recognizing the 40 year anniversary of the Soweto student uprisings of 1976. #RacismIsNotAPrivilege INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE: 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1984 for his years of commitment to South Africa's long struggle against apartheid. In 1995, President Nelson Mandela appointed him chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In October 1998, the Commission's report was submitted to President Mandela, and it had a significant impact on the healing of the nation. Born in Johannesburg, Tutu graduated from the University of South Africa. He taught high school in Johannesburg and Munsieville before entering the ministry. As General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, he gained national and international stature for his vigorous commitment to social justice.

Emphasizing the need for a multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary, integrative framework for understanding massive trauma and its aftermath, this presentation examines victims/survivors’ experiences primarily from the psychological perspective. It briefly describes how victims are affected by mass atrocities, their reactions, concerns and needs. Delineating necessary elements in the recovery processes from the victims’ point of view, the presentation will focus in particular on those elements of healing that are related to justice processes and victims’ experiences of such processes. Reparative justice insists that every step throughout the justice experience -- from the first moment of encounter of the Court with a potential witness through the follow-up of witnesses after their return home to the aftermath of the completion of the case -- presents an opportunity for redress and healing, a risk of missing or neglecting the opportunity for healing victims and reintegrating them into their communities and societies, or, worse, causing (re)victimization and (re)traumatization. While restitution, rehabilitation or compensation may only come after the process has concluded, there are still opportunities along the way. Although not sufficient in itself, reparative justice is nonetheless an important, if not necessary, dynamic component among the healing processes. Missed opportunities and negative experiences will be examined as a means to better understand the critical junctures of the trial and victims’ role within the process that can, if conducted optimally, lead to opportunities for healing. Yael Danieli is a clinical psychologist in private practice; victimologist; Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children (which she co-founded in 1975 in the New York City area) and Founding Co-President of the International network of Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their Friends. She has done extensive psychotherapeutic work with survivors and children of survivors on individual, family, group and community bases. Dr. Danieli has studied in depth post-war responses and attitudes toward them, and the impact these and the Holocaust had on their lives. She has lectured and published worldwide in numerous books and journals, translated into at least 17 languages on optimal care and training for this and other victim/survivor populations, and received several awards for her work, the most recent of which is the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). In 2008 she was appointed Advisor on Victims of Terrorism for the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and helped organize the first Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism at the UN. She was appointed Distinguished Professor of International Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, helping to build the first doctoral program in international psychology. She has served as consultant to the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court on issues related to victims and staff care, consultant to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Rwanda government on reparations for victims, and has led ongoing Projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Promoting a Dialogue: "Democracy Cannot Be Built with the Hands of Broken Souls") and in northern Ireland.

One of the lectures offered during the academic year featuring challenges in christian ethics.

One of the lectures offered during the academic year featuring challenges in Christian ethics.