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In South Africa, the truth and reconciliation process is explicitly based on the hypothesis that knowledge of the past will lead to acceptance, tolerance, and reconciliation in the future. Jim Gibson tests this hypothesis, based on data collected from a national survey of more than 3,700 South Africans completed in 2001.
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