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Reparations for Residential School Abuse in Canada: Litigation, ADR and Politics

Cooper-Stephenson, Ken
June 4, 2015

Source: (2007) In Max du Plessis and Stephen Pete, ed., Repairing the Past? International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses. Oxford, UK: Intersentia. Pp. 359-388.

“This chapter will review recent developments with respect to these resolution processes, in which the leading Native Indian non-governmental organisation in Canada, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), has played a major role. The chapter will also begin to explore questions of justice and legal theory raised by the processes.” (abstract)

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