Between vengeance and forgiveness facing history after genocide and mass violence

By:

Minow, Martha, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston Beacon Press 1998Description: xiii,214p. 22 cmISBN:

9780807045077

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.6 22 MI-B

LOC classification:

HV6322.7 .M56 1998

Contents:

Foreword / Richard J. Goldstone -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Vengeance and Forgiveness -- Ch. 3. Trials -- Ch. 4. Truth Commissions -- Ch. 5. Reparations -- Ch. 6. Facing History.

Summary: With Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Martha Minow, Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on justice and healing after horrific violence. Remembering and forgetting, judging and forgiving, reconciling and avenging, grieving and educatingMinow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, to individuals and societies living in the wake of past horrors.Summary: She explores the rich and often troubling range of responses to massive, societal-level oppression. She writes of the legacy of war-crime prosecutions, beginning with the Nuremberg trials. She explores whether reparation - such as the monetary awards given to Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, or art, such as Holocaust memorials - can be a basis for reconciliation after immeasurable personal and cultural loss.Summary: Minow also writes with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa, and in the process delves into the risks and requirements involved in hearing from victims, the dynamics of gender, and the value of even imperfect gestures in the midst of these riveting experiments in justice and healing.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	Special Collection - Stephen P Marks	FOB Library	303.6 MI-B (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Not For Loan	Gifted by Prof. Stephen P. Marks		021494
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	303.6 MI-B (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available			120172

Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-199) and index.

Foreword / Richard J. Goldstone -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Vengeance and Forgiveness -- Ch. 3. Trials -- Ch. 4. Truth Commissions -- Ch. 5. Reparations -- Ch. 6. Facing History.

With Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Martha Minow, Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on justice and healing after horrific violence. Remembering and forgetting, judging and forgiving, reconciling and avenging, grieving and educatingMinow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, to individuals and societies living in the wake of past horrors.

She explores the rich and often troubling range of responses to massive, societal-level oppression. She writes of the legacy of war-crime prosecutions, beginning with the Nuremberg trials. She explores whether reparation - such as the monetary awards given to Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, or art, such as Holocaust memorials - can be a basis for reconciliation after immeasurable personal and cultural loss.

Minow also writes with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa, and in the process delves into the risks and requirements involved in hearing from victims, the dynamics of gender, and the value of even imperfect gestures in the midst of these riveting experiments in justice and healing.

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