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
Introduction
Vengeance and forgiveness
Trials
Truth commissions
Reparations
Facing history
Physical Description xiii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Carrier Typevolume
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBoston : Beacon Press
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (pages [148]–199) and index
RecognitionGifted in 2020 by Shannon LaBelle & Kevin Forbes