Hendrik W. (H.W.) van der Merwe
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1929 – 2001
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Who was Hendrik W. (H.W.) van der Merwe?
Professor Hendrik W. (H.W.) van der Merwe was a South African academic, Quaker, and a pioneer of conflict resolution. He founded the Centre for Intergroup Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
His memoir, "Peacemaking in South Africa: A Life in Conflict Resolution" recalls how Van der Merwe in 1984 became the first to arrange meetings between the then-banned African National Congress in exile and newspaper editors.
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