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Biography
Charles Villa-Vicencio is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also a Visiting research professor at Georgetown University. He was a director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which organised the public hearings on the atrocities committed during apartheid.
Career
He was Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Cape Town. He is presently an Emeritus Professor of that university. He was the National Research Director in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A regular contributor to debate in South Africa, his present work is largely in the area of transitional justice. He is currently worked, or has worked, in countries with fractious societies ripped apart by civil war or ethnic strife. These range from the Basque separatist movement, Peru, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and other African countries.
He is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation which he founded in 2000 after his gig at the TRC.
Publications
Journal articles
- Charles Villa-Vicencio (2000). "Why perpetrators should not always be prosecuted: Where the International Criminal Court and Truth Commissions meet". Emory Law Journal. 49 (1): 205.
Books
- Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Ebrahim Moosa, eds. (2015). Africa Renaissance and Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth?. Georgetown University Press. p. 264. ISBN 9781626161979.
- Charles Villa-Vicencio (2009). Walk with Us and Listen: Political Reconciliation in Africa. Georgetown University Press. p. 248. ISBN 9781589015722.
- Charles Villa-Vicencio (2012). Conversations in Transition: The South African Story. David Philip Publishers.