Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (RSA)

is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. She assembled an excellent record of public speaking and leading workshops on reconciliation and forgiveness internationally at academic institutions, scholarly conferences and public audiences and professionals. She was member of the TRC. Her research interests are in the area of intrapsychic dynamics of forgiveness as an aspect of working through trauma and the role of religion in post-traumatic growth. She published Transforming Trauma in the Aftermath of Gross Human Right Abuses. Making Public Spaces Intimate (London 2008); Linking Apology, Remorse and Forgiveness: Psychological Healing for Victims and Perpetrators in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Berlin 2007); Women’s Contributions to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Washington 2005); Political Memory and the Politics of Memory (Tokyo 2005) and A Human Being Died that Night. A South African Story of Forgiveness (Boston 2003) which was awarded the Christopher Prize in the USA (2004), the Alan Paton Prize in South Africa (2004) and was translated into Dutch and German (Das Erbe der Apartheid: Trauma, Erinnerung und Versöhnung [Berlin 2006]).