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The Price of Democracy
I think the case of South Africa is very instructive and particularly through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was the South African attempt to come to terms with the past. I don't think reconciliation can be imposed by societies, I think it has to come from below and it primarily must come from those who were victims or whose families were victims of regimes. It's certainly happening as we speak in the sense that government agencies are responsible for what is nowadays called heritage. As it were the official story constantly modified but still constant in its broad outlines of the nation state and its predecessor outfits. Seen almost always as stories of grand linear development towards rewarding fulfilling goals rather than a catalogue of disasters and accidents