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Geniece Crawford
Major: Sociology
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Research

Abstract:

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Role in Undermining Socioeconomic Atrocities in the New South Africa

This project focuses on the effects the Truth and Reconciliation Commission played in marginalizing the socioeconomic devastation apartheid inflicted on South Africa’s black majority. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that occurred between 1995-2001, through a narrow definition of human rights violations, undermined the key aspects that characterized apartheid-socioeconomic peripheralization. By a careful review of research describing the socioeconomic atrocities existing at the time of the TRC and the socioeconomic condition of present day South Africa, this research aims to draw a connection between the manner in which the TRC treated the socioeconomic ills in South Africa and how that has affected the way the post-apartheid government addresses such issues.


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