Vanessa Barolsky

Vanessa Barolsky is a Research Associate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She works across several disciplinary areas including sociology, anthropology and criminology to tackle questions related to social conflict and its transformation. This includes critical engagements with social cohesion, truth, reconciliation and questions of justice and decolonisation. Her work is informed by her research in South Africa on political conflict where she worked at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and participated in writing the Commission’s final report. She subsequently completed a PHD on the Truth Commission’s conceptualisation of political conflict. She is currently working on several studies on community truth-telling in Australia with partners, including Reconciliation Australia.