PEACEMAKING AND PEACEBUILDING IN SOUTH AFRICA, the National Peace Accord, 1991-1994, foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

492pp., illus., map, paperback, Woodbridge, 2022

Assessment and in-depth account of the National Peace Accord, signed by the ANC Alliance, the National Party Government, the Inkatha Freedom Party and a range of other political and labour organisations on 14 September 1991. The parties agreed on the goal of a united, non-racial democratic South Africa and the means for moving towards this end. Also covers the work of the Goldstone Commission, which prefigured the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the role of international observers from the UN, EU, Commonwealth and OAU.

Revd Dr Liz Carmichael MBE is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, where she convenes the peace studies network of Oxford University. She worked as a medical doctor in Soweto 1975-1981, and in the Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg 1991-1996, while also serving on the local and regional peace structures.