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Forgiveness and resentment

Can we reconcile with his enemy? For the former opponents of South African and Franco-Algerian The challenge is the same: get out of colonial rule and build a relationship of trust after the violence of war. In South Africa, winners chose to forgive those responsible and beneficiaries of apartheid. Between France and Algeria, the separation of populations after the Evian agreements seems to have offered to seek ways of reconciliation. But the political agreements that ensure they corporations and individuals agree? Where are we today?

Through narratives and trajectories of ex-combatants in South Africa, Algerian and French, Laetitia Bucaille explores in this book of political sociology the pathways, the impasses, expectations, hopes and signs of opening. In the testimony of all, it captures the intimate experience, emotions, feelings of loss, pride and guilt.

- Laetitia Bucaille, Forgiveness and resentment. Algeria / France, South Africa: can we bury the war? , Editions Payot and Shores, 2010.

Laetitia Bucaille is a sociologist and lecturer at the University Victor-Segalen/Bordeaux 2 and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.