2 Developing a Road Map for the Future
The Group’s Guiding Principles
During the consultation process a number of general principles emerged, which have subsequently assisted in the development of the Group’s recommendations. Among these, one key principle has stood out.
The past should be dealt with in a manner which enables society to become more defined by its desire for true and lasting reconciliation, rather [...]
Remembrance for reconcilliation
The Conflict
A potentially contentious issue for the Group has been the terminology used to describe the past – was it the ‘Troubles’, the ‘Conflict’ or the ‘War’? While acknowledging that there are many diferent interpretations of the past and what it represented, for the purposes of this Report the Group has chosen to use the [...]
Information and Truth
The emergence of this truth should be encouraged through all forms of remembrance, detailed further in this Report, and also by a legal process of information recovery about individual cases and themes arising from the conflict. This should not be read as a copy of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There was much [...]
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