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Cited by 55War, Law, and JusticeMemory, violence, and historyForgiveness and Related Behaviors

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The Anatomy of Apology and Forgiveness: Towards Transformative Apology and Forgiveness

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Tarusarira, Joram·2019·International Journal of Transitional Justice
DOI 10.1093/ijtj/ijz006
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The central thesis of this article is that while apology and forgiveness are vital for dealing with a violent past, there is a need to critically transform the sociopolitical epistemic subjectivities that underpin a wrongdoing. These include political discourses, narratives, ideas and ideologies that justified the wrongdoing in the first place and are thus its bedrock. This is against the understanding that brutality and violence are sustained by particular epistemologies, logics and reasonings. Failure to bring about their transformation results in not stopping the repetition of brutality and not realizing sustainable reconciliation, as well as stifling key aspects of dealing with the past, such as truth seeking, truth telling, justice and accountability. By drawing on the state-sponsored massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s – the Gukurahundi massacres – this article argues that current calls for, and implementations of, apologies and forgiveness are often undertaken without considering the need to transform the epistemic bedrock of conflict and violence which engenders apology and forgiveness. This lack of focus on transformation makes apology and forgiveness susceptible to abuse or underutilization, and thus impotent in facilitating sustainable reconciliation. The article emphasizes the need to transform the cognitive and epistemic subjectivities underpinning wrongdoing, thus making a case for transformative apology and forgiveness.

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  1. 45 Kenneth I. Pargament and Mark S. Rye, 'Forgiveness as a Method of Religious Coping,' in Worthington, supra n 41; Norvin Richards, Humility (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992); Alice T. Clark, 'Humility,' in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, vol. 1 , ed. Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992); June P. Tangney, 'Humility,' in The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology , ed. Shane J. Lopez and Charles R. Snyder (London: Oxford University Press, 2002).

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Authors
Tarusarira, J.
Affiliations
University of Groningen (NL)
Corresponding author
Tarusarira, Joram
ORCID
Tarusarira, Joram
Venue
International Journal of Transitional Justice
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2019-04-09
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
206-224
ISSN
  • 1752-7716 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-7724
DOI
10.1093/ijtj/ijz006
OpenAlex
W2936162672
Cited by
55
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 2
FWCI
16.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • International Journal of Transitional Justice (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Universität Leipzig
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
Keywords
state violence, epistemic subjectivity, political discourse, justification of wrongdoing, reconciliation, truth-seeking, truth-telling, justice and accountability, transitional justice, Zimbabwe

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