Social Sustainability
Truth and Reconciliation
Post-conflict processes of truth-telling, acknowledgment and repair — a model now applied to Indigenous and environmental justice.
Definition
Truth and reconciliation refers to processes — typically commissions — established after periods of systematic abuse to establish the historical record, acknowledge victims, and recommend redress and reform, prioritising truth-telling and healing alongside or instead of prosecution. Originating with South Africa's post-apartheid TRC, the model has been applied to Indigenous peoples' treatment (Canada's TRC on residential schools) and is invoked in environmental and climate justice for historical harms from dispossession to pollution.
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