Before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation, there was the Spanish consenso. The idea of negotiated and peaceful consensus it embodied, as a way to overcome violent pasts after the end of dictatorship, was forged in the work of Communists, Socialists, Christian Democrats and human rights organisations both internationally and in Spain from the late 1950s onwards. Following the death of Franco and Spain’s successful democratization from the late 1970s, it would then become an influential approach that travelled internationally for two decades. This article highlights the role Continue reading → Continue reading →