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    The TRC's amnesty-for-testimony model systematically prio... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Restorative justice is essential to the rehabilitative healing required to forge a new democratic South Africa.

    The TRC's amnesty-for-testimony model systematically prioritized reconciliation over victims' legal right to retributive justice, structurally subordinating victim interests to state-building goals.

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    State-building(as used in political philosophy)
    The process of creating or strengthening a functional, unified government after conflict or collapse.
    Subordinating(as used in structural analysis)
    Treating something as less important than something else; placing it in a lower priority.
    TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission)(as a historical institution)
    A South African institution created after apartheid ended that allowed victims and perpetrators of human rights abuses to testify publicly; the idea was that truth-telling and acknowledgment could help heal society instead of just punishing people.
    amnesty(transitional justice and truth commissions)
    A grant of legal immunity from prosecution or punishment, here considered as an adjunct to a truth commission process

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    reconciliation(Hegel's proposed remedy for subjective alienation)
    The Hegelian process by which individuals come to recognise the existing social world as already objectively 'a home', thereby overcoming subjective alienation
    retributive justice(criminal law)
    The principle that those who culpably cause harm should suffer the censure and deprivations constitutive of punishment

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