Creators & ContributorsMinow, Martha (author)
Goldstone, Richard (contributor)

Summary"The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing." —Publisher

ContentsForeword / Judge Richard J. Goldstone

1. Introduction
2. Vengeance and forgiveness
3. Trials
4. Truth commissions
5. Reparations
6. Facing history

NotesIncludes bibliographical references (pages [148]–199) and index