This article presents the African palaver as a model of reconciliation in the social context and examines its missiological significance. Palaver is the interactive dialogue that animates many African communities’ affairs, seeking holistic interventions on issues of life and maintaining relationships within the hierarchy of existence. The African palaver model of reconciliation is about managing “words” in a reconciliation process that takes place in a public assembly discourse. The African palaver model has implications for (1) an appreciation of the importance of “words” as a source of reconciliation in a social context and (2) an introduction, in an African context, to the catechesis on the “Word of God,” revealed in Jesus Christ, as the language of God to humanity and the entire world. The article is developed in three parts: reconciliation and mission, the African palaver model of reconciliation, and the South African model of palaver. In its conclusion, it relates the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission model of reconciliation to the African palaver, which is rooted in people’s culture and tradition.

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非洲帕拉弗和解模式与任务

本文介绍了非洲palaver作为社会环境中和解的典范，并考察了其病态学意义。帕拉弗（Palaver）是使许多非洲社区的事务生气勃勃的互动对话，寻求对生活问题的整体干预，并在存在的等级体系中维持关系。非洲palaver的和解模型是在公开集会的讨论中，在和解过程中管理“言语”。非洲palaver模型具有以下含义：（1）赞赏“言语”在社会背景下作为和解来源的重要性，以及（2）在非洲背景下引入“上帝的话语”的主题分类”在耶稣基督里启示，是神对人类和整个世界的语言。本文分为三个部分：和解与使命，非洲和解的帕尔维模型和南非的帕尔维模型。在其结论中，它将南非真相与和解委员会的和解模式与植根于人民文化和传统的非洲巨aver联系在一起。