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Nelson Mandela: Scholarly Articles

Year 12 Modern History

Zagacki

This article looks at the response of Nelson Mandela to the assassination of Chris Hani.

Nixon

Leiberfeld

An analysis of Nelson Mandel's personal attributes relevant to peacemaking and negotiation. 

Maylam

Pieterson

An article about Nelson Mandela's leadership.

Heribert

Young

 An article about the negotiations between Mandela and President De Klerk.

Stengel

Mandela's are mostly practical. Many of them stem from his personal experience. All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place."

Read

Chronic communal conflicts often embody prisoner’s dilemmas. Both communities prefer peace to war. Yet neither trusts the other, viewing the other’s gain as its loss, so potentially shared interests often go unrealized. Achieving positive-sum outcomes from apparently zero-sum struggles requires a particular kind of risk-embracing leadership.

Google Books

Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates'resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars.

 

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Arslan

This article analyses the case of South Africa’s national reconciliation experiences and Mandela’s iconic role in this process. 

Ramphal

This article gives a personal perspective on the importance of the Commonwealth in the international campaign against apartheid.

Cowell