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FROM FORCE TO SERVICE
The old system of apartheid had broken down, a new system had not yet been born, and the country was trying to navigate the vacuum in between.
Susan Collin Marks served on the Western Cape Peace Committee of the National Peace Accord during South Africa’s transition from apartheid. Her book, Watching the Wind: Conflict Resolution during South Africa's Transition to Democracy, captures the story of how an intransigent conflict was transformed by conflict resolution and peace-building that, for the first time ever, was implemented across a whole country through a National Peace Accord. For 20 years, she served as Vice President of Search for Common Ground.