ABSTRACT
The future of social reconciliation in countries such as South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many others, to a great extent depends on addressing the challenges posed by colonial legacies and neo-colonial realities. This is one of the ideas that ties together the different chapters in this anthology. The authors point to a ‘truth’ which is not only that of specific events or unspeakable acts. The ‘truth’ in question relates to our very modern experience. It intimates that modernity is complicit with a paradigm of war.
