S4 Justice P&Recon
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S4 Justice in the world
how should people be punished??
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south africa under apartheid
•Adopted by the successful Afrikaner National Party as a slogan in the 1948 election, apartheid extended and institutionalised existing racial segregation. Despite rioting and terrorism at home and isolation abroad from the 1960s onward, the white regime maintained the apartheid system with only minor relaxation until February 1991.
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apartheid•black people were not allowed to move
about the country•they had to carry ID to stop paler
people getting into white areas•or allowed to get trained for or practice
skilled jobs•no mixed race marriages•laws passed to ensure non-equal wages•black people to do the most dangerous
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• So just like in Mississippi Burning - but a lot more recently
• in fact some people think it was even worse
• many people were murdered for the colour of their skin and the murderers got away with it
• even some policemen
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Question:What was apartheid?
What was it like?
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Soweto uprising•In 1976 secondary
students in Soweto took to the streets to protest
• On 16 June, in what was meant to be a peaceful protest, 23 people were killed.
•including Hector Pieterson, age 12.
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what would you do?• There existed a virtual civil war
between the establishment and anti-apartheid forces
•For four years, police and soldiers patrolled South African towns. Thousands of people were detained.
•Deaths mounted on both sides. Many of those detained by the government were interrogated and tortured.
•Anti-government activists used the "necklace method" (burning people alive) to kill Africans suspected of supporting apartheid.
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enter a reverend...•Desmond TUTU
•1931-
•compared apartheid to Nazism
•united almost all churches against apartheid in 70’s
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Desmond TUTU•he went to prison for
criticising the government
•but he also criticised the reactionary black groups who were pursuing violence as a potential solution
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Desmond TUTU•Nobel Prize Winner
•you might find the way he talks or laughs a bit strange but you have to try and get past that....
•he is talking about something important-how we should live our lives
•whether murderers should get locked up, hanged, or what?
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what to do after Apartheid?
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QuestionWhat did Tutu say
would have happened if Black
South African’s had attempted
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we’re all human?sleeplesssleepless
QuestionWhy does Tutu, a Bishop, say that
God is not a Christian?
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forgivenesssleeplesssleepless
Question
What is forgiveness for Tutu?
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two ways to resolve conflict
truth & reconciliation
commission -SA
Nuremberg Trials - former Nazi Germany sleeplesssleepless
truth & reconciliation commission -SA
•The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
•a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the abolishment of apartheid.
•Anyone who felt that he or she was a victim of its violence was invited to come forward and be heard.
•Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from prosecution.
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Nuremberg Trials - former Nazi Germany
•a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of Nazi Germany after its defeat
•tribunal made up of British, American, French and Russian
•only tried Axis personnel•many executions•victors justice
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some problems
•some people said there could be no reconciliation until there was real justice through retribution
•so we’re back to this idea of two kinds of people
which way?
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remember we said...
•Christian Justice is everyone being treated the same
•everyone treating other people the way they would want to be treated
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Question...
•what is the relationship between justice and reconciliation?
•give two accounts, and explain which of these is more ‘Christian’
‘justice’ before reconciliation
reconciliation is part of justice
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for a Christian
W W J D?
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33When they came to the place called the Skull, there they
crucified him, along with the criminals—one on his right, the
other on his left.
34Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they
are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
35The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at
him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen
One."
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even more...when they were about to
arrest him...
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QuestionWhat did Jesus think about violence and forgiveness. How do
you know?
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a way forward for our world...?
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