ReconTrans
(Trading justice for peace? Reconciliation as a transformative concept in TRC processes, 2019-2023) var et internasjonalt komparativt forskningsprosjekt initiert og koordinert av KUN/VID Tromsø. Prosjektet innebar et samarbeid med University of Western Cape (Sør-Afrika) og Vancouver School of Theology (Canada), med deltakelse av forskere fra Sør-Afrika, Canada, Norge og Sverige.
VIDs rolle i prosjektet: Initiativtaker og koordinator.
Samarbeidspartnere: University of Western Cape (Sør-Afrika) og Vancouver School of Theology (Canada), med deltakelse av forskere fra Sør-Afrika, Canada, Norge og Sverige.
Finansiør: Nord-Hålogaland bispedømmeråd.
KUN/VID Tromsø søkte NFR om støtte til ReconTrans-projektet. Søknaden ble avslått, men Prosjekt Fornorsking og Forsoning (2020-2023) finansiert av Nord-Hålogaland bispedømmeråd, ga rom til å gjennomføre prosjektet i en nedskalert form.
Prosjektets mål
ReconTrans ville undersøke hvordan og i hvilken grad ‘forsoning’ som transformativt begrep og praksis finner sted i tilknytning til sannhets- og forsoningskommisjoner. ReconTrans undersøkte den norske sannhets- og forsoningskommisjonsprosessen (2018-2023) i sanntid, og tilrettela for sammenlignende forskning mellom kommisjonserfaringer i Sør-Afrika, Canada og Norge/Norden.
Forskningsresultater
Forskningsresultatene er publisert i to vitenskapelige antologier:
- Guðmarsdóttir, S., Regan, P. & Solomons, D. (Red.). (2021). Trading Justice for Peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries. AOSIS. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2021.BK174.
- Skum, L. M., Klaasen, J., Krupka, B. & Aldred, R. (Red.). (2024). Cultivating transformative reconciliation: Are TRC processes enough? Pickwick Publications. https://wipfandstock.com/9781666778755/cultivating-transformative-reconciliation/.
Kirke og Kultur ga dessuten ut et temanummer om Sannhet og forsoning (1/2023) i samarbeid med KUN/VID Tromsø, basert på konferansebidrag fra ReconTrans-konferansen i Oslo mai 2022.
Forskningsnettverk og konferanser
Forskningsnettverket som prosjektet tok utgangspunkt i, ble til gjennom forskningskonferanser i Cape Town 31. mai 2019 og i Tromsø 29.-30. oktober 2019. Ytterligere to ReconTrans-konferanser fant sted i prosjektperioden:
- «Forsoning uten majoritetsbefolkning? Samfunnsaktørenes bidrag til sannhet og forsoning i oppgjøret med fornorskningen», VID Oslo, Oslo, 3.-4. mai 2022 (samarbeid med Den norske kirke).
- «Cultivating transformative reconciliation: The Canadian TRC experience in dialogue with the South African and Nordic cases”, VST, Vancouver, 21.-22. september 2022.
Underprosjekt “Small stories challenging large narratives"
Underprosjektet “Small stories challenging large narratives», som analyserte ca. 170 personlige fortellinger delt på 16 åpne kommisjonsmøter i Norge, behandlet personopplysninger om etnisitet. Av denne grunn ble underprosjektet registrert hos og godkjent av SIKT. Studien er publisert i Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation (2024). Dersom du ønsker mer informasjon om akkurat denne studien, ta kontakt på e-post: tore.johnsen@vid.no.
TRADING JUSTICE FOR PEACE?
Introduction Trading justice for peace? Perils and possibilities. Demaine Solomons, Paulette Regan, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
Part One: Negotiating truth, justice and reconciliation: TRC mandates, processes and legacies
Chapter 1 Negotiating the meaning of ‘TRC’ in the Norwegian context. Tore Johnsen
Chapter 2 Canada’s TRC: An ‘unsettling’ Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model. Paulette Regan
Chapter 3 Reconciliation recommended: On the anchoring of TRC proposals. Kjell-Åke Nordquist
Chapter 4 Reconciliation as an outcome rather than an intention. Stanley Henkeman
Part Two: No reconciliation without justice: Indigenous rights, resurgence, self-determination and territorial lands
Chapter 5 Justice twenty-one years post-TRC! Can a theology of reconstruction assist us to regain our focus on reconciliation and justice? Christo H. Thesnaar
Chapter 6 When justice has borders: Some reflections on national borders in relation to the TRC in Norway. Lovisa M. Sjöberg, Mikkel N. Sara
Chapter 7 Prospects and challenges for reconciliation: Implementing the TRC calls to action. David B. MacDonald
Chapter 8 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: An invitation to boldness. Sheryl Lightfoot
Part Three: Re-storying national histories: Counter-narratives of social memory and justice
Chapter 9 Narrative and truth and reconciliation. John Klaasen
Chapter 10 Reburial of Sami human remains as ritualised reconciliation. Daniel Lindmark
Chapter 11 Records as instruments of truth, justice and reconciliation – Disrupting colonialism in archival praxis. Elizabeth Shaffer
Part Four: Histories of violence and trauma: negotiating identity, responsibility and accountability for redress and reconciliation
Chapter 12 Steve Biko as a ‘Christian’: A contribution to ethnic and racial reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. Eugene Baron
Chapter 13 Social justice, white beneficiaries and the South African TRC. Wilhelm Verwoerd
Chapter 14 Unsettling ‘perpetrators’: Comrade memories of complex violence and the South African TRC. Kim Wale
Chapter 15 Building thin sympathetic engagement to foster truth commission success. Joanna R. Quinn
Conclusion Forging transnational pathways for reconciliation. Paulette Regan, Demaine Solomons, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation
Introduction: Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation, Line M. Skum, John Klaasen, Bernd Krupka, and Ray Aldred
Part One: Transformative Issues in Law and Politics
1. The Nordic Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A New TRC Model for Resolving Historic and Ongoing Violations of Indigenous Rights? Elin Skaar
2. TRC and Processes within the Church of Norway: Unequal Status of North Sámi and Kvens/Norwegian Finns in Shared Regions. Hans Morten Haugen
3. Untangling the Gordian Knot: Recognition of Indigenous Minorities in the Context of Truth and Reconciliation in Norway and Peru. Anne Margrethe Sønneland and Carola Lingaas
4. Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in the Context of Decolonization. Girum Zeleke
Part Two: Understanding History from a Transformative Perspective
5. Historical Justice as a New Challenge in Historical Research: Reflections on the White Paper Project on the Historical Relations Between the Church of Sweden and the Sámi People. Daniel Lindmark
6. Decolonizing Scandinavian Creation Theology: The Constructive Critique of Key Concepts in the Works of Sámi Theologian Tore Johnsen. Gyrid Gunnes
7. Truth and Reconciliation in Sápmi and Libanon: Messianism of Decolonization. Helge Hiram Abdelnoor Jensen
8. The Relation of Civil Society to the Norwegian TRC-Process in the Light of TRUCOM Research: A Reconciliation without the Majority? Kjell Olsen
Part Three: Transformative Reconciliation – The TRC Processes and Beyond
9. Between Performance and the Absurd: Evaluating Reconciliation at the South African TRC. Demaine Solomons
10. Small Stories Challenging Large Narratives: The Contribution of Personal Accounts to Transformative Reconciliation in Post-TRC Norway. Tore Johnsen
11. Narrative as Interlocutor of Identity and Reconciliation. John Klaasen
12. Remembering: A Pathway to Unburden our Present? Bonita Bennett