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The age of apology : facing up to the past

"In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We live in an age that seeks to establish political truth, perhaps best exemplified by the creation of truth commissions in societies seeking to emerge from dictatorial pasts. The most noteworthy result of these efforts has been the near-universal realization that a society will not be able successfully to pass into the future until it somehow deals with the horrors of its past
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2008
Aufsatzsammlung
vii, 333 pages ; 23 cm
9780812240337, 9780812220872, 0812240332, 0812220870
180254858
Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder
Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson
Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman
Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln
Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson. Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming
The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy
The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff
Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James
Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs. Part III: International apologies of states. State apologies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi
"Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens
Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa
Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo
Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr
Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl. Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. Marrus
Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa. Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner
The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks