Wilhelm Verwoerd
Biographic Data
| ID | 180671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilhelm Verwoerd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilhelm |
| FAMILY NAME | Verwoerd |
| SIGNATURE | VERWOERD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3517-1654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding
This article addresses a neglected human cost of relational peacebuilding, identified in an earlier article on ‘peace as betrayal’. The focus here is how relational peacebuilders can respond to painful accusations of betrayal by family-type group members evoked by working with the ‘other side’. Continuing to draw on the reflections of experienced peace practitioners from South Africa, the Israel-Palestine region and the conflict in and about Nort…
Diagnosing and dismantling South African whiteness: ‘White work’ in the Dutch Reformed Church
In this article, we reflect on our lived experience as co-facilitators of a promising intragroup anti-racism process within the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa. Firstly, we describe how this emergent process, referred to as ‘white work’, has developed since 2018 to include three focal areas: facilitation and training, research and the development of resources for faith leaders. Secondly, in the interest of localised, embodied diagnost…
Liberated by Tutu’s undomesticated inclusivity
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Peace as Betrayal: On the Human Cost of Relational Peacebuilding in Transitional Contexts
This article explores the micro-dynamics of intragroup betrayal and self-betrayal that can be evoked by relational peacebuilding between groups. The painful accusation of betrayal by close, family-type group members and internally feeling like a betrayer as a result of working with the ‘other side’ is presented as an underestimated human cost of relational peacebuilding. This understanding emerged from an international ‘Beyond Dehumanisation’ res…
Black Christ and Cross-Roads Jesus for white South African Christians
A significant factor undermining real racial reconciliation in post-1994 South Africa is widespread resistance to shared historical responsibility amongst South Africans racialised as white. In response to the need for localised ‘white work’ (raising self-critical, intragroup historical awareness for the sake of deepened racial reconciliation), this article aims to contribute to the uprooting of white denialism, specifically amongst Afrikaans-spe…
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology
Forgiveness: The Victim’s Prerogative
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Truth and Reconciliation
L'A. presente et commente brievement trois ouvrages recents sur le fonctionnement et les objectifs de la Commission verite et reconciliation (TRC) en Afrique du Sud, et sur les commissions de reconciliation en general : K. Christie, 2000 ; C. Villa-Vicencio et W. Verwoerd, 2000 ; R.I. Rotberg et D. Thompson, 2000. Selon l'A., si l'importance et la logique de la TRC doivent etre comprises dans le contexte historique de l'apartheid, le processus de…
Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
Toward the Truth About the Trc: A Response To Key Moral Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In this article the 'genre' of the TRC Report is clarified in order to answer some of the criticisms of the TRC. It is argued that the TRC conceptualised its role as the promotion of restorative justice rather than retributive justice. Justice and reconciliation is served not by isolating perpetrators of gross human rights violations but by restoring human community. Different aspects of the effects of the TRC's work are considered, namely reconc…
Individual and/or Social Justice after Apartheid? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Continuing the discussion: Reflections from within the truth and reconciliation commission
(1996). Continuing the discussion: Reflections from within the truth and reconciliation commission. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 66-85
Tensions between My Fatherhood and Feminism
WILHELM VERWOERD' is a father who takes his ‘motherhood’ seriously. In exploring the difficulties he has in translating his commitment to feminism into the practical realities of fatherhood, he also shares the benefits and opportunities this brings him
On the Injustice of (Un)Just Joking
Are sexist jokes funny? Do feminists have a sense of humour? Wilhelm, and Melanie Verwoerd explore some of the complex questions around joking, gender and justice
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Forgiveness: The Victim’s Prerogative
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
On the Injustice of (Un)Just Joking
Are sexist jokes funny? Do feminists have a sense of humour? Wilhelm, and Melanie Verwoerd explore some of the complex questions around joking, gender and justice
Truth and Reconciliation
L'A. presente et commente brievement trois ouvrages recents sur le fonctionnement et les objectifs de la Commission verite et reconciliation (TRC) en Afrique du Sud, et sur les commissions de reconciliation en general : K. Christie, 2000 ; C. Villa-Vicencio et W. Verwoerd, 2000 ; R.I. Rotberg et D. Thompson, 2000. Selon l'A., si l'importance et la logique de la TRC doivent etre comprises dans le contexte historique de l'apartheid, le processus de…
Individual and/or Social Justice after Apartheid? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tensions between My Fatherhood and Feminism
WILHELM VERWOERD' is a father who takes his ‘motherhood’ seriously. In exploring the difficulties he has in translating his commitment to feminism into the practical realities of fatherhood, he also shares the benefits and opportunities this brings him
On the Injustice of (Un)Just Joking
Are sexist jokes funny? Do feminists have a sense of humour? Wilhelm, and Melanie Verwoerd explore some of the complex questions around joking, gender and justice
Continuing the discussion: Reflections from within the truth and reconciliation commission
(1996). Continuing the discussion: Reflections from within the truth and reconciliation commission. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 66-85
Tensions between My Fatherhood and Feminism
WILHELM VERWOERD' is a father who takes his ‘motherhood’ seriously. In exploring the difficulties he has in translating his commitment to feminism into the practical realities of fatherhood, he also shares the benefits and opportunities this brings him
Toward the Truth About the Trc: A Response To Key Moral Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In this article the 'genre' of the TRC Report is clarified in order to answer some of the criticisms of the TRC. It is argued that the TRC conceptualised its role as the promotion of restorative justice rather than retributive justice. Justice and reconciliation is served not by isolating perpetrators of gross human rights violations but by restoring human community. Different aspects of the effects of the TRC's work are considered, namely reconc…
Individual and/or Social Justice after Apartheid? The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology
Forgiveness: The Victim’s Prerogative
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Truth and Reconciliation
L'A. presente et commente brievement trois ouvrages recents sur le fonctionnement et les objectifs de la Commission verite et reconciliation (TRC) en Afrique du Sud, et sur les commissions de reconciliation en general : K. Christie, 2000 ; C. Villa-Vicencio et W. Verwoerd, 2000 ; R.I. Rotberg et D. Thompson, 2000. Selon l'A., si l'importance et la logique de la TRC doivent etre comprises dans le contexte historique de l'apartheid, le processus de…
Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
Black Christ and Cross-Roads Jesus for white South African Christians
A significant factor undermining real racial reconciliation in post-1994 South Africa is widespread resistance to shared historical responsibility amongst South Africans racialised as white. In response to the need for localised ‘white work’ (raising self-critical, intragroup historical awareness for the sake of deepened racial reconciliation), this article aims to contribute to the uprooting of white denialism, specifically amongst Afrikaans-spe…
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Peace as Betrayal: On the Human Cost of Relational Peacebuilding in Transitional Contexts
This article explores the micro-dynamics of intragroup betrayal and self-betrayal that can be evoked by relational peacebuilding between groups. The painful accusation of betrayal by close, family-type group members and internally feeling like a betrayer as a result of working with the ‘other side’ is presented as an underestimated human cost of relational peacebuilding. This understanding emerged from an international ‘Beyond Dehumanisation’ res…
Diagnosing and dismantling South African whiteness: ‘White work’ in the Dutch Reformed Church
In this article, we reflect on our lived experience as co-facilitators of a promising intragroup anti-racism process within the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa. Firstly, we describe how this emergent process, referred to as ‘white work’, has developed since 2018 to include three focal areas: facilitation and training, research and the development of resources for faith leaders. Secondly, in the interest of localised, embodied diagnost…
Liberated by Tutu’s undomesticated inclusivity
Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding
This article addresses a neglected human cost of relational peacebuilding, identified in an earlier article on ‘peace as betrayal’. The focus here is how relational peacebuilders can respond to painful accusations of betrayal by family-type group members evoked by working with the ‘other side’. Continuing to draw on the reflections of experienced peace practitioners from South Africa, the Israel-Palestine region and the conflict in and about Nort…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Commission (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)