Justice, history and memory in France: reflections on the Papon trial
by Rousso, Henry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 277-293. Maurice Papon was an official in the French Vichy government during World War II. The Vichy government collaborated with the Nazis...
Read More
Victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Rwanda: the legal and institutional framework of their right to reparation
by Vandeginste, Stef
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 249-274. When a country experiences a transition from an oppressive regime or period to a more democratic and peaceful situation, questions arise...
Read More
Wealth of nations: aboriginal treaty-making in the era of globalization
by Woolford, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 217-247. In British Columbia as elsewhere, note Ratner, Carroll, and Woolford, the political, economic, and social conditions in which most...
Read More
Moral integrity and reparations for Africa
by Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 193-215. Africa has long been the object of attention from European countries and the United States, often to the detriment of Africa countries...
Read More
Is truth enough? Reparations and reconciliation in Latin America
by Lean, Sharon F
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 169-191. Many Latin American countries in the last two decades have undergone transitions from military rule or dictatorship to democracy, often...
Read More
Negotiating new relationships: Canadian museums, first nations, and cultural property
by Phillips, Ruth B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 149-167. According to Ruth Phillips and Elizabeth Johnson, Canadian museums are renegotiating their relationships with indigenous First Nations...
Read More
War compensation: claims against the Japanese government and Japanese corporations for war crimes
by Hein, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 127-147. Over the last decade, notes Laura Hein, remembrance and redress for actions committed in World War II have become major issues both...
Read More
Calculating slavery reparations: theory, numbers, and implications
by Conley, Dalton
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 117-125. In the last few decades, the question of paying reparations to black Americans as restitution for the legacy of slavery has arisen in...
Read More
Reflections on reparations
by Brooks, Roy L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 103-114. There is perhaps no more contentious issue in international human rights today, asserts Roy Brooks, than the question of reparations....
Read More
Restitution and amending historical injustices in international morality
by Barkan, Elazar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 91-102. The demand that nations should act morally by acknowledging their past historical injustices is a new phenomenon, asserts Elazar Barkan....
Read More
Coming to terms with the past
by Cairns, Alan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 63-90. As Alan Cairns puts it, the notion of xe2x80x9ccoming to terms with the pastxe2x80x9d does not involve a celebration of great...
Read More
The politics of regret: analytical frames
by Olick, Jeffrey K
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 37-62. The past is very much present on the public agenda in many parts of the world today. Rather than glorification of a heroic past, it is...
Read More
Introduction: Politics and the past
by Torpey, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In John Torpey, ed., Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 1-34. According to John Torpey, editor of this book, the pursuit of reparations and apologies for a wide array of past injustices has in recent...
Read More
Politics and the past: on repairing historical injustices
by Torpey, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book, edited and introduced by John Torpey, consists of a collection of essays exploring the challenges of addressing and repairing past injustices. In this regard it contributes to the increased attention in recent years to...
Read More
Restorative Justice Mapping Exercise of UK Prisons
by Criminal Justice System (England), Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) London, England: Restorative Justice Consortium. Downloaded 10 May 2005. As part of the Government’s commitment to raise the profile of Restorative Justice (RJ) throughout all Criminal Justice agencies, last July we carried out a mapping exercise involving all...
Read More