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Offical Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice

Author : Michael Robert Marrus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offical Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice written by Michael Robert Marrus and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the author, among other books, of The Politics of Assimilation: French Jews at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair, Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert Paxton), The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, The Holocaust in History, Mr. [...] I am grate- ful as well to the Ford Foundation, which supported a series of seminars on the subject of apologies I organized at the Munk Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto during the academic year 2004-2005, and to the two anonymous reviewers. [...] Official Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice Thus, despite requests to do so, Soviet and later Russian leaders have never apologized for the massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the forest of Katyn in 1940; the Israelis refused the invitation of Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad in 1968 to apologize for their "aggression" the year before; American historian Eugene Genovese f [...] The apologies considered here are for wrongs that are historic in two 15 respects: first, through the gravity of the wrongdoing in the conscious- ness of the victims and their successors; and second, through the wrongdoing having occurred in the historical past, often the distant past, usually considered out of reach of criminal proceedings or other conventional modes of dispute resolution. [...] Because of the historic nature of the grievances, there is an element of the extraordinary in the acknowledgement of the wrong committed, the acceptance of responsibility, the expression of remorse, and the commitment to set the matter to rest.

Official Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice

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Download or read book Official Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the author, among other books, of The Politics of Assimilation: French Jews at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair, Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert Paxton), The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, The Holocaust in History, Mr. [...] "When the new truth regime is presented and the successor regime's representative apolo- gizes to the people on the nation's behalf for acts committed under the predecessor regime, what is implied is a certain continuity of the state and of the rule of law. [...] The apologies considered here are for wrongs that are historic in two respects: first, through the gravity of the wrongdoing in the conscious- ness of the victims and their successors; and second, through the wrongdoing having occurred in the historical past, often the distant past, usually considered out of reach of criminal proceedings or other conventional modes of dispute resolution. [...] Because of the historic nature of the grievances, there is an element of the extraordinary in the acknowledgement of the wrong committed, the acceptance of responsibility, the expression of remorse, and the commitment to set the matter to rest. [...] To a handful of survivors, their families, and dignitaries assembled in the East Room of the White House, the President spoke generously, and sought, through his apology, to document the wrong, to make a broader admission, and to Official Apologies and the Quest for Historical Justice 17 extend a commitment to doing better in the future.

The Rhetoric of Official Apologies

Author : Lisa S. Villadsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621810
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Official Apologies written by Lisa S. Villadsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf of a collective and the concomitant issues of rhetorically tackling the multiple political, social, and philosophical issues at stake when a collective issues an official apology to a group of victims. Contributors address questions of whether collective remorse is possible or credible, how official apologies can be evaluated, who can issue apologies on behalf of whom, and whether there are certain kinds of wrongdoing that simply can’t be addressed in the form of an official apology. Collectively, the book speaks to the relevance of conceptualizing official apologies more broadly as serving multiple rhetorical purposes that span ceremonial and political genres and represent a potentially powerful form of collective self-reflection necessary for political and social advancement.

States of apology

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 184779940X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book States of apology written by Michael Cunningham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical consideration of the apology in politics. It provides a detailed overview of all aspects of the phenomenon of the apology made by states, which has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. It is the product of a decade’s research and reflection on the subject and thus provides a complete coverage of all the key debates and features. States of apology evaluates the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics, the political and cultural factors behind its emergence and the philosophical problems generated by the state apologising and in particular the question of responsibility across generations. The book also considers the dynamics of domestic apologies and the relationship of the apology to the field of international relations. It is written in a clear and jargon-free style which will make it accessible to both students and non-students alike.

Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in 'Care'

Author : J. Sköld
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137457554
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in 'Care' written by J. Sköld and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book positions inquiries into the historical abuse of children in care within the context of transitional justice. It examines investigation, apology and redress processes across a range of Western nations to trace the growth of the movement, national particularities and the impact of the work on professionals involved.

Historical Justice

Author : Klaus Neumann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392272
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Historical Justice written by Klaus Neumann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yearning for historical justice – that is, for the redress of past wrongs – has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisations address historical injustices through truth commissions, tribunals, official apologies and other transitional justice measures. Historians produce knowledge of past human rights violations, and museums, memorials and commemorative ceremonies try to keep that knowledge alive and remember the victims of injustices. In this book, researchers with a background in history, archaeology, cultural studies, literary studies and sociology explore the various attempts to recover and remember the past as a means of addressing historic wrongs. Case studies include sites of persecution in Germany, Argentina and Chile, the commemoration of individual victims of Nazi Germany, memories of life under South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the politics of memory in Israel and in Northern Ireland. The authors critique memory, highlight silences and absences, explore how to engage with the ghosts of the past, and ask what drives individuals, including professional historians, to strive for historical justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology

Author : Lia Kent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000084744
Total Pages : 401 pages
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Download or read book Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology written by Lia Kent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transitional justice seeks to establish a break between the violent past and a peaceful, democratic future, and is based on compelling frameworks of resolution, rupture and transition. Bringing together contributions from the disciplines of law, history and anthropology, this comprehensive volume challenges these frameworks, opening up critical conversations around the concepts of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing, transition and resolution. The authors explore how these concepts operate across time and space, as well as disciplinary boundaries. They examine how transitional justice mechanisms are utilised to resolve complex legacies of violence in ways that are often narrow, partial and incomplete, and reinforce existing relations of power. They also destabilise the sharp distinction between ‘before’ and ‘after’ war or conflict that narratives of transition and resolution assume and reproduce. As transitional justice continues to be celebrated and promoted around the globe, this book provides a much-needed reflection on its role and promises. It not only critiques transitional justice frameworks but offers new ways of thinking about questions of violence, conflict, justice and injustice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies

Author : Mihaela Mihai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343729
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies written by Mihaela Mihai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.

Gender and Political Apology

Author : Emma Dolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431223
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Political Apology written by Emma Dolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a much-needed gendered reading to the increasingly important practice of political apology. Engaging in depth with two cases of interstate apologies for conflict-related sexual violence – Japan’s apologies for the South Korean "comfort women" and US apologies for the Abu Ghraib scandal – the author argues that political apologies are particularly "excitable" or uncontrollable forms of speech which are composed of and rearticulate historically constituted gender norms. In doing so, political apologies work to recognise and make visible particular gendered victims whilst simultaneously obscuring others. Through the concept of "legitimate victimhood", the author examines the performative ways in which political apologies (re)negotiate and (re)make embodied gendered identities. Ultimately, she argues that the ambivalent form of recognition offered by the performance of official apologies in these cases resulted in numerous unintended consequences, including opportunities for victims to demonstrate linguistic agencies. Political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence can therefore — indirectly — empower the gendered victims addressed. This book will be of great interest to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of politics and international relations, women’s and gender studies, memory studies, victimology, transitional justice, human rights, and peace and conflict studies. It will also interest policymakers, practitioners, and campaign groups involved in such areas as justice for gender-based violence.

Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures

Author : Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437111
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures written by Marouf Hasian, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations. This study explores British, American and Spanish camp cultures, analysing debates over their legitimacy and current discussions on retributive justice.

Empires of Remorse

Author : Tom Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317599195
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Empires of Remorse written by Tom Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until deep into the 20th century, empire remained a source of pride for European states and their politicians. The 21st century, however, has seen the unexpected emergence of certain European states apologising to their former colonies. Analysing apologies from Germany, Belgium, Britain and Italy, this book explores the shifting ways in which these countries represent their colonial pasts and investigates what this reveals about contemporary international politics, particularly relations between (former) coloniser and colonised. It is argued that, far from renouncing colonialism in its entirety, the apologies are replete with discourses that are reminiscent of the core legitimising tenets of empire. Specifically, the book traces how the apologies both illuminate and recycle many of the inequalities, mind-sets and ambivalences that circulated at the height of empire. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of peace and post-conflict resolution studies, memory studies, colonial studies and postcolonial theory. More broadly, it will be of interest to those studying political science, International Relations, sociology and development.

Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century

Author : Marouf Hasian Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030212785
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century written by Marouf Hasian Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides. The author departs from traditional studies of the work of Raphael Lemkin or U.N. definitions of genocide so that readers can examine genocide recognition as a political act that is bound up in partial perceptions and political motivations. The study looks at the Tasmanian genocide, Al-Nakba, and several other tragic events. It also looks at the ways that these historical and contemporary debates about colonial genocides are related to today’s conversations about apologies and other restorative justice acts. This work will be of interest to a wide range of audiences including researchers, scholars, graduate students, and policy makers in the fields of political history, genocide studies, and political science.

Some Kind of Justice

Author : Diane Orentlicher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019088228X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Some Kind of Justice written by Diane Orentlicher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally-renowned scholar in the fields of international and transitional justice, Diane Orentlicher provides an unparalleled account of an international tribunal's impact in societies that have the greatest stake in its work. In Some Kind of Justice: The ICTY's Impact in Bosnia and Serbia, Orentlicher explores the evolving domestic impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which operated longer than any other international war crimes court. Drawing on hundreds of research interviews and a rich body of inter-disciplinary scholarship, Orentlicher provides a path-breaking account of how the Tribunal influenced domestic political developments, victims' experience of justice, acknowledgement of wartime atrocities, and domestic war crimes prosecutions, as well as the dynamic factors behind its evolving influence in each of these spheres. Highlighting the perspectives of Bosnians and Serbians, Some Kind of Justice offers important and practical lessons about how international criminal courts can improve the delivery of justice.

Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations

Author : Christopher Daase
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589483
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations written by Christopher Daase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies, thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and transitional justice.

Enduring Injustice

Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379377
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Injustice written by Jeff Spinner-Halev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters is victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not only the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to address them. The history of these injustices matters, not as a way to assign responsibility or because we need to remember more, but in order to understand the nature of the injustice and to help us think of possible ways to overcome it. Suggesting that enduring injustices fall outside the framework of liberal theory, Spinner-Halev spells out the implications of his arguments for conceptions of liberal justice and progress, reparations, apologies, state legitimacy, and post-nationalism.

Unravelling Encounters

Author : Caitlin Janzen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771120959
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Unravelling Encounters written by Caitlin Janzen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogies, and understanding of encounters in diverse settings. The contributors draw largely on the work of Sara Ahmed’s Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, each chapter taking up a particular encounter and unravelling the elements that created that meeting in its specific time and space. Sites of encounters included in this volume range from the classroom to social work practice and from literary to media interactions, both within Canada and internationally. Paramount to the discussions is a consideration of how relations of power and legacies of oppression shape the self and others, and draw boundaries between bodies within an encounter. From a social justice perspective, Unravelling Encounters exposes the political conditions that configure our meetings with one another and inquires into what it means to care, to respond, and to imagine oneself as an ethical subject.

Dark Pasts

Author : Jennifer M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501730258
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Dark Pasts written by Jennifer M. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands that they recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have apologized for past crimes, others continue to silence, deny, and relativize dark pasts. What explains the tremendous variation in how states deal with past crimes? When and why do states change the stories they tell about their dark pasts. Dark Pasts argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in official narratives about dark pasts, but domestic considerations determine the content of such change. Rather than simply changing with the passage of time, persistence, or rightness, official narratives of dark pasts are shaped by interactions between political factors at the domestic and international levels. Unpacking the complex processes through which international pressures and domestic dynamics shape states’ narratives, Jennifer M. Dixon analyzes the trajectories over the past sixty years of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915–17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937–38 Nanjing Massacre. While both states’ narratives started from similar positions of silencing, relativizing, and denial, Japan has come to express regret and apologize for the Nanjing Massacre, while Turkey has continued to reject official wrongdoing and deny the genocidal nature of the violence. Combining historical richness and analytical rigor, Dark Pasts unravels the complex processes through which such narratives are constructed and contested, and offers an innovative way to analyze narrative change. Her book sheds light on the persistent presence of the past and reveals how domestic politics functions as a filter that shapes the ways in which states’ narratives change—or do not—over time.