Truth and Reconciliation

The only hope of breaking cycles of violence is by public acknowledgement of such violence and the exposure of those responsible for it. . . . Forgiveness cannot be granted without knowledge; and without forgiveness, there cannot be any meaningful reconciliation (adapted).

~Richard Goldstone, involved in the South African truth commission, and the war crimes tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, from the Truth about Truth Commissions by Heather S. McHugh, Senior Research Analyst, March 1996