Source: (2009) Law and Contemporary Problems. 72(2):144-149.
This article provides a brief background on the Greensboro Truth and
Community Reconciliation process and the event it was created to address. It
will then apply some of the lessons described in Professor Gibson’s article2 to
the process in Greensboro by exploring these questions: (1) Who were the
victims in Greensboro and what role did they or should they have played in the
truth and reconciliation process? (2) How can an institution have broad
legitimacy in a community with such low levels of trust? (3) What is
reconciliation and has it occurred in Greensboro? Although Gibson offers
much valuable advice for building effective truth and reconciliation
commissions (TRCs), some of his advice is contingent on the perceived goals of
the TRC, while other advice can prove counterproductive. (excerpt)
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