Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
7 September 2007
In this lecture internationally acclaimed Professor of Psychology, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela reaches beyond Arendt, with her concept of “radical forgiveness”. She offers the hope and the possibility that every person, no matter how dehumanised, can be restored to the human community.
Drawing on her experiences serving on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela led a discussion about this powerful and challenging reappraisal of the possibilities of forgiveness in politics.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her current research interests are trauma in the aftermath of violence, the role of forgiveness in healing psychological trauma, and HIV/AIDS and trauma. She is the author of many books. Her most critically acclaimed, A Human Being Died That Night: A Story of Forgiveness, won the 2004 Alan Paton Award in South Africa. Her latest is Narrating Our History: Perspectives on Working Through Trauma, co-authored with Chris van der Merwe.
She served on the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and chaired numerous Public Hearings for the Truth Reconciliation Commission.
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