No Future without Forgiveness: A Personal Overview of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner and former Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, shares a profound message of forgiveness and hope that argues that, to move effectively forward into the future, one must recognize and forgive the horrors of the past to in order to achieve true reconciliation.

uth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa has put the spotlight on all of us...In its hearings Desmond Tutu has conveyed our common pain and sorrow, our hope and confidence in the future."
--Nelson Mandela

The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience.

In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation c