EC - Do Truth Commissions Promote Social Healing?

Truth Commissions and Social Healing

Do Truth Commissions Promote Social Healing?

You are invited to a presentation on "A Longitudinal Study of Community Attitudes on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH. Dr. Sonis is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Sonis has studied the work of truth and reconciliation commissions in South Africa and Greensboro. He recently completed a national study in Cambodia of attitudes toward the upcoming U.N.-sponsored trials of the Khmer Rouge. Please join us for his presentation of findings on Greensboro. DATE: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 TIME: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon LOCATION: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Joyner Room, Elliot University Center (bottom floor) This talk is sponsored by the department of Public Health Education, in the School of Health and Human Performance. More information: Public_Health@uncg.edu