Paul van Zyl served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission . Paul also co-founded the International Centre for Transitional Justice, an organization that works in over 40 countries that have endured massive human rights violations under repression conflict. Most recently, Paul co-founded The Conduit, which serves as a home for those committed to improving the world by harnessing the power of creativity and entrepreneurship.

Paul speaks with amazing precision and passion on 'just transition', whether from apartheid to democracy or from fossil fuelled, extractive economies to renewable, regenerative ones:

"The trick is, in a nutshell, to get ourselves to net zero in a way that builds durable political and electoral majorities who will support it. And that starts with making sure that people who are most vulnerable and most left behind benefit from their transition."

We spoke on 6 July 2022.

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Ubuntu philosophy that "I am because we are".

Truth and Reconciliation Commission explained on Wikipedia"a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid...{C]haired by Desmond Tutu, the commission invited witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations to give statements about their experiences, and selected some for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution."

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New York Times / The Conduit conference: Climate Forward.

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The Conduit joining page

Rowan Conway, while at the RSA, 'Think like a system, act like an entrepreneur'.

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