ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book provides an analysis of the role that Christianity played in the TRC. It highlights certain analyses that may be instructive to those who engage in international conflict resolution theory. In the field of international conflict resolution, as well as international relations (IR), the appropriate place of religion as a source for peace building and IR theory remains a point of contestation, confusion and even exasperation. Since at least 1979, with the Iran hostage crisis, US political theorists have been acutely aware of the need to understand how religion serves as a motivating force in international relations. The South African TRC is an especially rich case study for religious conflict resolution because it was, for the most part, able to maintain the late-modern tension between liberal political conventions and religious worldviews.
