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Facing the past : amending historical injustices through instruments of transitional justice
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ISBN: 1780685262 1780684037 9781780684031 Year: 2016 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. 'This synthetic volume is a comprehensive introduction to the various facets of the field of historical injustice of which transnational justice is its best known manifestation. This practical and thoughtful publication addresses critical aspects that challenge the goal of redressing the past as these are presented in scholarship, advocacy and policy. The book delves into questions from justice to ethics and to education and would be useful for students as well as policy makers.' Elazar Barkan, Columbia University'This is a superb reference work on Transitional Justice, covering nearly all of the general questions regarding the various mechanisms in its toolbox, and the combinations thereof, and including case studies and pending cases. It provides expert analyses of transitional justice in post-conflict, post-authoritarian, and democratic states, presenting problems and solutions. The subjects broadly range from apologies to corporate complicity, to America's self-proclaimed exceptionalism when it comes to confronting onerous chapters of its past. In recent years, a number of problematic cases have emerged that will require us to re-think the transitional justice toolbox - this volume offers a solid basis from which to depart'Nanci Adler, University of Amsterdam.


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Slavery and Colonialism
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ISBN: 9966031707 9789966031709 996603109X 9789966031099 9789966031099 Year: 2011 Publisher: Nairobi, Kenya Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Kampala, Uganda


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


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Sorry States
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ISBN: 9780801446252 0801446252 0801462274 0801462282 9780801462283 9780801462276 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful healing effects when they are offered, and poisonous effects when withheld. West Germany made extensive efforts to atone for wartime crimes-formal apologies, monuments to victims of the Nazis, and candid history textbooks; Bonn successfully reconciled with its wartime enemies. By contrast, Tokyo has made few and unsatisfying apologies and approves school textbooks that whitewash wartime atrocities. Japanese leaders worship at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals among Japan's war dead. Relations between Japan and its neighbors remain tense.Examining the cases of South Korean relations with Japan and of French relations with Germany, Jennifer Lind demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and inhibit international reconciliation. In Sorry States, she argues that a country's acknowledgment of past misdeeds is essential for promoting trust and reconciliation after war. However, Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or reparations. Contrition can be highly controversial and is likely to cause a domestic backlash that alarms-rather than assuages-outside observers. Apologies and other such polarizing gestures are thus unlikely to soothe relations after conflict, Lind finds, and remembrance that is less accusatory-conducted bilaterally or in multilateral settings-holds the most promise for international reconciliation.


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Namibia and Germany
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ISBN: 9991642102 9789991642109 9789991642109 9789991642093 9991642099 Year: 2015 Publisher: Windhoek UNAM Press


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Transitional justice for foxes : conflict, pluralism and the politics of compromise
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ISBN: 110894602X 1108933963 1108945260 1108844227 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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There is a memorable line by ancient Greek poet Archilochus: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' Drawing on this metaphor made popular by Isaiah Berlin, this book sets out to 'think like a fox' about transitional justice in an intellectual environment largely dominated by hedgehogs. Critical of the unitary 'hedgehog-like' vision underlying mainstream discourse, this book proposes a pluralist reading of the field. It asks: What would it mean for transitional justice to constructively deal with conflicts of values and interests in societies grappling with a violent past? And what would it imply to make meaningful room for diversity, to see 'the many' rather than just 'the one'?


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Reparations for indigenous peoples : international and comparative perspectives
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ISBN: 0191696668 1283580691 9786613893147 0191553050 9780191696664 9780191553059 0199235600 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The volume brings together a group of renowned legal experts and activists from different parts of the world who, from international and comparative perspectives, consider the right of indigenous peoples to reparations for breaches of their individual and collective rights.The first part of the book is devoted to general aspects of this important question, providing a comprehensive assessment of the relevant international legal framework and including overviews of the topic of reparations for human rights violations, the status of indigenous peoples in international law and the vision of repar


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The handbook of reparations
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ISBN: 0199545707 1280870222 9786610870226 0191537659 1435623622 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Offering the most comprehensive book-length study to-date of reparation programmes, this handbook contains an innovative blend of case-study analysis, thematic papers, and national legislation documents from leading scholars and practitioners. This landmark work will make a genuine contribution to the theory and practice of reparations. - ;This handbook is provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world; includes


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Justice back and forth
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ISBN: 1487510500 1487500246 9781487510503 9781487510510 1487510519 9781487500245 Year: 2016 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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In Justice Back and Forth, award-winning author Richard Vernon explores the possibility of justice in cases where time makes reciprocity impossible. This "temporal justice" is examined in ten controversial cases.


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Overcoming historical injustices
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ISBN: 9780521517881 0521517885 9780511581632 9780521144407 9780511540998 051154099X 0511581637 9780511539459 1107191521 1282187171 9786612187179 0511540655 0511539452 0511538626 0511540299 052114440X 9781107191525 9781282187177 6612187174 9780511540653 9780511538629 9780511540295 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in Gibson's 'overcoming trilogy' on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

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