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Alex Boraine
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Having been ordained as a Methodist minister in 1956, he studied at Rhodes University in South Africa, Oxford University in England, and Drew University in the United States of America.
Career
He was elected to parliament as an Member of Parliament for the Progressive Party in 1974. He resigned in 1986 and, together with Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, founded IDASA, which organized the 1987 meeting with African National Congress leaders in Dakar, Senegal. From 1986 to 1995, Doctor Boraine headed two South African nonprofit organizations concerned with ending apartheid and addressing the legacy it left behind.
Boraine was one of the main architects of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to be its deputy chair serving under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 through early 2001, he served as professor of law at New York University and as director of the New York University Law School"s Justice in Transition program
In 2001 Doctor Boraine co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice - an international human rights non-governmental organization. He served as ICTJ’s president for three years, and subsequently, the chairperson of ICTJ’s South Africa office. Alex Boraine has travelled to many countries that are in transition from dictatorship to democracy, at the invitation of governments and Non-governmental organizations, to share the South African experience.
He has published two books
“A Country Unmasked,” was published by Oxford University Press in November 2000. “A Life in Transition” was published by Struik Publishers in June 5, 2008.
Membership
Boraine is currently a member of Advisory Board of Directors and a Global Visiting Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law"s Hauser Global Law School Program.
