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821.5 Mensenrechten --- 856.6 Vredesopbouw --- 881.4 Zuidelijk Afrika --- South Africa. --- Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (South Africa) --- South African Truth Commission --- TRC --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) --- South Africa --- Politics and government

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In the context of comparative legal history, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is contrasted with the Study Commission for Working Through the History and the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany. In an extensive examination, central aspects of the commissions' mandates and their implementation are analyzed, thus providing a deeper understanding of the two truth commissions. Whilst the final reports of the commissions serve as a central source, personal interviews with experts in transitional justice and contemporary witnesses from South Africa are also included in the work. Im Rahmen der vergleichenden Rechtsgeschichte wird die südafrikanische Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission der Enquete-Kommission zur Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland gegenübergestellt. In einer eingehenden Untersuchung werden zentrale Aspekte der Kommissionsmandate und ihrer Umsetzungen durch die Kommissionen analysiert und so ein tieferes Verständnis der beiden Wahrheitskommissionen vermittelt. Dabei werden nicht nur die Abschlussberichte der Kommissionen als zentrale Grundlage herangezogen. Es finden auch persönliche Interviews mit Expert:innen der Transitional Justice und Zeitzeug:innen aus Südafrika Eingang in die Arbeit.

Aufarbeitung von Unrecht, Demokratie, Diktatur, Kollektiver Schlussstrich, Lustration, Menschenrechtsverletzung, Opferentschädigung, Politischer Umbruch, Staatliche Verbrechen, Stasi-Unterlagen, Transitional Justice, Unrechtsaufarbeitung, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Wahrheitssuche, Wiedergutmachung, Wahrheitskommission, Aufarbeitung, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Enquete-Kommission

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"In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson's Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people--hundreds altogether--participated in special "handling sessions," in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum's institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage."--

Siksika Indians --- Cultural property --- Clothing. --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Blackfeet Indians (Algonquian) --- Blackfoot Indians (Algonquian) --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- colonialism --- Truth and Reconciliation --- aboriginal peoples --- museum studies --- first nations --- museology --- heritage items --- sacred objects