Documenta11_Platform2 Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation Contents: Preface Introduction Experiments with Truth: The Burden of Gandhi’s Moral Philosophy Mahmood Mamdani Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa Albie Sachs Different Kinds of Truth: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Avishai Margalit Is Truth the Road to Reconciliation? Boris Buden Truth and Reconciliation Are Not What We Really Need Geneviève Morel The “Melancholization” of theWitness: The Impotence of Words, the Power of Images Shahid Amin Sagas of Victory, Memories of Defeat? The Long Afterlife of an Indo-Muslim Warrior Saint, 1033-2000 Uncivil Conduct: State Violence, Ethnic Conflict, Civil Society Yadh Ben Achour The Order of Truth and the Order of Society Dilip Simeon A Finer Balance: An Essay on the Possibility of Reconciliation Rory Bester Trauma and Truth Urvashi Butalia The Persistence of Memory: The Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Crimes against Humanity: Truth Commissions and the Pursuit of Justice Gurjot Malhi An Experiment in International Criminal Justice: The Philosophy Methodology, and Workings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Vojin Dimitrijevic Facts versus Truth: The Dilemmas of a Reluctant Member of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Susan Slyomovics Torture, Recovery, and Truth in Morocco María José Guembe The Search for the Truth Before the Courts Ruti Teitel Transitional Justice as Liberal Narrative The Immersive Spectacle: Historical Testimony and the Limits of Representation Franz Kaltenbeck The Denial of Justice and the Loss of the Subject Eyal Sivan Archive Images: Truth or Memory? The Case of Adolf Eichmann’s Trial Alfredo Jaar It Is Difficult Barbara Maria Stafford The Logic of Reconciliation Manthia Diawara African Literature and the Rwandan Expedition The Politics of Witnessing: Trauma, Memory, and the Narration of Truth Lolle Nauta The Democratization of Memory Susana Torre Constructing Memorials Rustom Bharucha Between Truth and Reconciliation: Experiments in Theater and Public Culture Film and Video Program Contributors