Desmond Tutu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1404127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond Tutu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Tutu |
| SIGNATURE | TUTU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nobel Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Kenyan TJRC
Between 1963 and 2008 Kenya experienced systematic atrocities, economic crimes, ethnic violence, and the illegal taking of land. To come to terms with these historical injustices and gross violations of human rights, the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was established. From the perspective of an insider and academic expert, The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider's View from the Inside reveals for the first time the debates and de…
Kenyan TJRC
The First Word
In this essay, Archbishop Tutu explains how Christianity understands the inherent freedom, dignity, and human rights of each person to be a consequence of being created in the image of God. This idea contains radical liberative potential to challenge oppression and create structures for human flourishing. While Christianity has not always lived up to the liberative potential of its teachings, and too often has contributed to hatred, oppression, a…
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay
Reflections on Moral Accountability
As patron of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), I am both proud and excited that this organization has taken the lead in initiating an international publication on transitional justice in partnership with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. By creating a space for dialogue and the sharing of knowledge and research, the International Journal of Transitional Justice will no doubt contribut…
Attributes of leadership
In 1988 Nelson Mandela was still in South Africa's apartheid prison system, where he had been incarcerated for a quarter of a century. He would turn 70 that July, and his friend, the doughty president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, C R, had suggested that the world should celebrate this birthday. Many young people started pilgrimages from various parts of the United Kingdom, and they converged on Hyde Park Corner in…
Horizons
Why do we learn some lessons more easily than others - indeed with alacrity and enthusiasm? Often these are not of the most attractive sort. It seems so frequently as if there is a sheer perversity in us
The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and …
Hope and Suffering
God's Work—To Set Us Free
South Africa - Is There Still Hope
Journal Article SOUTH AFRICA - IS THERE STILL HOPE? Get access DESMOND TUTU DESMOND TUTU Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 309, October 1978, Pages 567–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097029 Published: 01 October 1978
Reflections on Moral Accountability
As patron of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), I am both proud and excited that this organization has taken the lead in initiating an international publication on transitional justice in partnership with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. By creating a space for dialogue and the sharing of knowledge and research, the International Journal of Transitional Justice will no doubt contribut…
God's Work—To Set Us Free
South Africa - Is There Still Hope
Journal Article SOUTH AFRICA - IS THERE STILL HOPE? Get access DESMOND TUTU DESMOND TUTU Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 309, October 1978, Pages 567–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097029 Published: 01 October 1978
Hope and Suffering
The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and …
Horizons
Why do we learn some lessons more easily than others - indeed with alacrity and enthusiasm? Often these are not of the most attractive sort. It seems so frequently as if there is a sheer perversity in us
Attributes of leadership
In 1988 Nelson Mandela was still in South Africa's apartheid prison system, where he had been incarcerated for a quarter of a century. He would turn 70 that July, and his friend, the doughty president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, C R, had suggested that the world should celebrate this birthday. Many young people started pilgrimages from various parts of the United Kingdom, and they converged on Hyde Park Corner in…
Reflections on Moral Accountability
As patron of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), I am both proud and excited that this organization has taken the lead in initiating an international publication on transitional justice in partnership with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. By creating a space for dialogue and the sharing of knowledge and research, the International Journal of Transitional Justice will no doubt contribut…
Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
The First Word
In this essay, Archbishop Tutu explains how Christianity understands the inherent freedom, dignity, and human rights of each person to be a consequence of being created in the image of God. This idea contains radical liberative potential to challenge oppression and create structures for human flourishing. While Christianity has not always lived up to the liberative potential of its teachings, and too often has contributed to hatred, oppression, a…
The Kenyan TJRC
Between 1963 and 2008 Kenya experienced systematic atrocities, economic crimes, ethnic violence, and the illegal taking of land. To come to terms with these historical injustices and gross violations of human rights, the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was established. From the perspective of an insider and academic expert, The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider's View from the Inside reveals for the first time the debates and de…
Kenyan TJRC
Political science (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Archbishop (2 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (2 works)