Acknowledgments; Preface: Reflections on Moral Literacy; Introduction: Political Travel Through the Holy Land; Part I. Probing the South African Lessons; 1. Controversial Issues on Overview; 2. A Brief History of South Africa and Apartheid; 3. The Problematic Israel-South Africa Analogy; 4. Visions of an Endgame; Part II. After the Violence; 5. Collective Memory: How Democracies Deal with the Crimes of Previous Regimes; 6. The Politics of Reconciliation and Transitional Justice; 7. An Israeli/Palestinian Truth Commission?; Part III. Conclusions: Solutions Revisited and Lessons Drawn; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Professor Heribert Adam was born in Germany and received his university education at the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. He has been teaching political sociology at Simon Fraser University, Canada, since 1968 and also held fellowships at Berkeley, Yale, the American University in Cairo and since 1987 lectures regularly at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on ethnic conflicts and nationalism, particularly socio-political developments in South Africa. In 1998 he was awarded the Konrad Adenauer PRize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in 2000 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest recognition that a Canadian scholar can achieve. Kogila Moodley is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and was first holder of the David Lam Chair. Raised in the Indian community of apartheid South Africa, she moved to Canada in 1968, with her research focused on critical multiculturalism, anti-racism education, comparative ethnic relations and citizenship. She served as President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations from 1998 to 2002.
An enduring feature of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse has been the pygmy moral stature of the leadership on both sides. Stepping firmly into a notorious minefield of ethnic/religious passions, Adam and Moodley argue convincingly that hoping for some savior figure to bring the warring parties together is futile. For the uncompromising quality of their political analysis, and for the tough realism of the advice they offer, they are to be applauded. J.M. Coetzee.
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