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Transitional justice : images and memories
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ISBN: 9781409438854 9781409438861 9781409472582 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

Les réparations de guerre en droit international public: la responsabilité internationale des états à l'épreuve de la guerre
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ISBN: 2802715933 2275022449 9782802715931 Year: 2002 Volume: 36 Publisher: Bruxelles Bruylant

Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices
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ISBN: 0742517985 0742517993 9780742517998 Year: 2003 Publisher: Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield

The guilt of nations: restitution and negotiating historical injustices
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ISBN: 0393048861 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Norton


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Reparations for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity: systems in place and systems in the making
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ISBN: 1282401041 9786612401046 9047427955 9789047427957 9789004174498 9004174494 9781282401044 6612401044 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Nijhoff

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This book provides detailed analyses of systems that have been established to provide reparations to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and the way in which these systems have worked and are working in practice. Many of these systems are described and assessed for the first time in an academic publication. The publication draws upon a groundbreaking Conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre (CNRC) and REDRESS at the Peace Palace in The Hague, with the support of the Dutch Carnegie Foundation. Both CNRC and REDRESS had become very concerned about the extreme difficulty encountered by most victims of serious international crimes in attempting to access effective and enforceable remedies and reparation for harm suffered. In discussions between the Conference organisers and Judges and officials of the International Criminal Court, it became ever more apparent that there was a great need for frank and open exchanges on the question of effective reparation, between the representatives of victims, of NGOs and IGOs, and other experts. It was clear to all that the many current initiatives of governments and regional and international institutions to afford reparations to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes could benefit greatly by taking into full account the wide and varied practice that had been built up over several decades. In particular, the Hague Conference sought to consider in detail the long experience of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (the Claims Conference) in respect of Holocaust restitution programmes, as well as the practice of truth commissions, arbitral proceedings and a variety of national processes to identify common trends, best practices and lessons. This book thus explores the actions of governments, as well as of national and international courts and commissions in applying, processing, implementing and enforcing a variety of reparations schemes and awards. Crucially, it considers the entire complex of issues from the perspective of the beneficiaries - survivors and their communities - and from the perspective of the policy-makers and implementers tasked with resolving technical and procedural challenges in bringing to fruition adequate, effective and meaningful reparations in the context of mass victimisation.


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Facing the past : amending historical injustice through instruments of transitional justice
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ISBN: 9781780684031 9781780685267 Year: 2016 Volume: 21 Publisher: Cambridge Intersentia

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How do societies at the national and international level try to overcome historical injustices? What remedies did they develop to do justice to victims of large scale atrocities? And even more important: what have we learned from the implementation of these so-called instruments of transitional justice in practice? Lawyers, socials scientists and historians have published shelves full of books and articles on how to confront the past through international criminal tribunals, truth commissions, financial compensation schemes and other instruments of retributive/punitive and restorative justice. A serious problem continues to be that broad interdisciplinary accounts that include both categories of measures are still hardly available. With this volume a group of international experts in the field endeavors to fill this gap, and even more. By alternating historical overviews with critical assessments this volume does not only offer an extensive introduction to the world of transitional justice, but also food for thought concerning the effectiveness of the remedies it offers to face the past successfully --Back cover

My neighbor, my enemy : justice and community in the aftermath of mass atrocity
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ISBN: 0521542642 0521834953 9780521542647 9780521834957 9780511720352 0511720351 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and carrying out extensive surveys, the authors explore what people think about their past and the future. Their conclusions controversially suggest that international or local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. Communities understand justice far more broadly than it is defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. The authors offer an ecological model of social reconstruction and conclude that coordinated multi-systemic strategies must be implemented if social repair is to occur. Finally, the authors suggest that while trials are essential to combat impunity and punish the guilty, their strengths and limitations must be acknowledged.


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Should race matter? Unusual answers to the usual questions
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ISBN: 9780521760867 9781139187671 1139187678 9781139190268 1139190261 0521760860 9780521149808 0521149800 9781139003650 1107216567 1139179365 1283378086 9786613378088 113918895X 1139003658 1139183044 1139185365 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. Arguing from premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists, and anyone interested in trying to resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues"--

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