Choosing to forgive can be frightening, but it’s a powerful tool for repairing the harm done by violence, oppression and other traumas.
What Can America Learn From South Africa About National Healing? – New York Times Magazine
By David Marchese Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado Twenty-five years ago, after the end of apartheid, South Africa established its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission’s subsequent public hearings were an attempt to provide victims of the country’s brutal white-nationalist … Read More
With Tamar Garb, Centre for Racism and Racialisation, University College London
Speakers: Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at UCL // Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University, and the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe … Read More
On the violence of racism and gender-based violence in South Africa – Daily Maverick
By Dennis Davis In episode 39 of this unique interview series, Judge Dennis Davis talks to Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. South Africa happens to be a traumatised country in … Read More
Life Conversations with the Dalai Lama and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mind Life Institute
The second session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s conversations with key thought leaders on “Compassion, Interconnection, and Transformation” organized by the Mind & Life Institute at his residence in Dharamsala, India on October 30th and November 1st, 2019.
Interview on Radio 702 on “Reflections on Transformation in South Africa” – 702
Koketso Sachane chats about navigating the complicated and complex journey towards dealing with racial tension. Should we be more militant in the how we deal with racial tension, or should we still follow Mandela’s non-violent strategy? In this new episode … Read More
Interview at Duke University’s Faith and Leadership on the possibility of forgiveness – Faith & Leadership
Even after the worst atrocities, forgiveness is possible, says a South African psychologist and researcher. At its core lies empathy, the turning point where people encounter and recognize each other as human beings.
Der Spiegel interview (in German) about A Human being Died that Night – Der Spiegel
Von Johann Grolle und Katja Thimm Die südafrikanische Psychologin Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela über Folterer im Staatsdienst, die Dynamik von Schuld und Vergebung und ihre Begegnung mit dem Chef der Polizei-Todesschwadronen des Apartheid-Regimes
Interview on A Human being Died that Night – Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio
By Neal Conan Next week marks the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections. It was also the start of a historic effort to address the violence and human rights abuses of the apartheid era. Join NPR’s Neal Conan … Read More
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