Attended meeting at Intercomm instead of morning visit to Police Community Board
Wednesday, June 6, 07 12 - 2 PM
Question and Answer Period
Q: Does going over the past help with healing?
A: Need to make peace with enemy, not friends
1) Acknowledge those that allowed peace
2) Recognize common humanity
Need to be open to new approaches and to look at things differently because old way does not work
This is difficult for combatants labeled killers, who will be left holding responsibility
Focus normally on perpetrators / victims (people who fired or bombed), however in reality not like that. Circumstances brought them to it, victims become perpetrators, no one can claim clean hands, look away, told a joke, wrote something discriminating.
Every group waiting for other to say sorry first
Truth commission - needs consensus, especially among combatants who will live with stigma. South Africa's took place in another country, so no prosecution for crimes confessed
Q: How has police structure left over from before changed?
A: Many officers left on their own, their racist ideas do not fit in the new system
Worl does not evolve arround one person's suffering, many people are suffering
Q: People want to move on, some can not let go. How do we get through to those who can't forget what happened to them?
A: All suffering is waised if don't move on and ensure a good future
Some need time, have to provide a forum for them, don't let them hold process back
Q: What can be done for people with skillet important at time of conflict are lost with out employment? (besides those that go into civil service)
A: Have unemployment problems because lack skilled labor, not becase lack jobs
Find fits for former combatants based on skills they do have
Leadership - 2 years learning period, tax break for company
Q: How can we keep civil servants responcible to the people?
A: Need new ones, using agreed process
Q: Thoughts on excombatants in police force?
A: Process from changing from a informal (community driven) poicing system to a formal one is not handled well.
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