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Assessing South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

2002· article· en· W1581760196 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Lyn S. Graybill

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSouth African History and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommissionPolitical scienceGeographyArchaeologyLaw

Abstract

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After the TRC and The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa are two significant contributions to the growing number of recently-published books about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They represent a refreshing counterbalance to the many excessively laudatory accounts about the TRC, some from former commissioners, including its chair Desmond Tutu whose book, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), is probably the best known of these insider memoirs. After the TRC, edited by Wilmot James and Linda van de Vijver is based on a conference of the same name held in Cape Town in August 1999. Many of the papers presented there find their way into this volume with the addition of essays by Heribert Adam, Kanya Adam, Patricia Valdez, Mahmood Mamdani, Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, Ciraj Rassool, Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, Linda van de Vijver, Jeffrey Lever, Colin Bundy, and Wilmot James. An edited book with submissions from a wide array of individuals legal experts, sociologists, historians, theologians, political scientists, and economists it questions the generally accepted view (at least outside of South Africa) of the TRC as wildly successful and offers instead a more critical, nuanced assessment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.381
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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