This special issue of Track Two looks at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from a conflict resolution perspective, posing two basic questions: What was missing from the process? And, what next?

• Notebook - More and Less

• Opinion - The Tensions of Transition

• For All Its Flaws - The TRC as a Peacebuilding Tool

• Blood Feuds and Childbirth - The TRC as Ritual

• A Safe Space - How local leaders can make room for reconciliaion

• Facing Our Shadow Side - perspective by Ampie Muller

• Justice that Restores - perspective by Russel Botman

• Gerhard Koornhof (NP) and Willie Hofmeyer (ANC) - interviewed on their parties' views of the TRC

• Restorative Justice - When Justice and Healing Go Together

• The Price of Truth - How disclosures affect Germany's East-West relations

• Reconciliation: The Road to Healing? - Collective good, individual harm?

• 'Not a Legal Concept' - TRC's capacity for reconciliation and
  much else that courts cannot do...

• Mending the Vase - Reconciling broken relationships

• The Trauma of Testifying - Deponents' difficult healing process

• 'Vicarious Trauma' - Supporting the TRC Staff

• Media Creation - How the TRC and media have impacted on each other

• Resources: - Selected Readings on Truth and Reconciliation

• 'A Wrenching Tradegy' - Book Review: Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation

• Healing the Memory - Cutting the cord between victim and perpetrator
  interview with Father Michael Lapsley

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