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Justice and reconciliation in world politics
Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation to colonial injustice? Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labor, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, Lu demonstrates that international practices of justice and reconciliation have historically suffered from, and continue to reflect, colonial, statist and other structural biases. The continued reproduction of structural injustice and alienation in modern domestic, international and transnational orders generates contemporary duties of redress. How should we think about the responsibility of contemporary agents to address colonial structural injustices and what implications follow for the transformation of international and transnational orders? Redressing the structural injustices implicated in or produced by colonial politics requires strategies of decolonization, decentering, and disalienation that go beyond interactional practices of justice and reconciliation, beyond victims and perpetrators, and beyond a statist world order.-- Provided by Publisher.
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How to Accept German Reparations
In a landmark process that transformed global reparations after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one way for a victim to be recognized. At the same time, indemnifications provoke a number of difficult questions about how suffering and loss can be measured: How much is an individual life worth? How much or what kind of violence merits compensation? What is \"financial pain,\" and what does it mean to monetize \"concentration camp survivor syndrome\"?Susan Slyomovics explores this and other compensation programs, both those past and those that might exist in the future, through the lens of anthropological and human rights discourse. How to account for variation in German reparations and French restitution directed solely at Algerian Jewry for Vichy-era losses? Do crimes of colonialism merit reparations? How might reparations models apply to the modern-day conflict in Israel and Palestine? The author points to the examples of her grandmother and mother, Czechoslovakian Jews who survived the Auschwitz, Plaszow, and Markkleeberg camps together but disagreed about applying for the post-World War IIWiedergutmachung(\"to make good again\") reparation programs. Slyomovics maintains that we can use the legacies of German reparations to reconsider approaches to reparations in the future, and the result is an investigation of practical implications, complicated by the difficult legal, ethnographic, and personal questions that reparations inevitably prompt.
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Perspectives on forgiveness : contrasting approaches to concepts of forgiveness and revenge
\"Demands for forgiveness, even in the face of horrific crimes, were common to the late twentieth century and remain critical aspirations for persons and communities in the early twenty-first century. Research on forgiveness and revenge has nevertheless revealed that many people hold divergent moral and pragmatic beliefs about forgiving, and most survivors express longstanding skepticism about when forgiveness is appropriate and when it is not. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, the current volume considers the complexities of forgiveness and revenge in the modern world. The chapters address some of the most critical inquiries today: How is forgiveness facilitated or obstructed? What is the role of truth, restitution, reparation or retribution? When is forgiveness without restitution appropriate? Is forgiveness in the true sense of the term even possible? Through empirical, theoretical and literary analyses, this volume addresses the power of revenge and forgiveness in human affairs and offers a unique outlook on the benefits of interdisciplinary discussions for enhancing forgiveness and deterring revenge in multiple aspects of human life\"--Page 4 of cover.
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The Case for Drug War Reparations
Jessica Flanigan and Christopher Freiman on the undoing of unjust policy.
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Should race matter? : unusual answers to the usual questions
\"In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. Arguing from premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists, and anyone interested in trying to resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reparations and Reparatory Justice
Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are
pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African
descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered
works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both
in the United States and around the world.
Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of justice, the
contributors provide a historical primer of the movement; introduce
the philosophical, political, economic, legal and ethical issues
surrounding reparations; explain why government, corporations,
universities, and other institutions must take steps to
rehabilitate, compensate, and commemorate African Americans; call
for the restoration of Black people's human and civil rights and
material and psychological well-being; lay out specific ideas about
how reparations can and should be paid; and advance cutting-edge
interpretations of the complex long-lasting effects that
enslavement, police and vigilante actions, economic discrimination,
and other behaviors have had on people of African descent.
Groundbreaking and innovative, Reparations and Reparatory
Justice offers a multifaceted resource to anyone wishing to
explore a defining moral issue of our time.
Contributors : Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Hilary
McDonald Beckles, Mary Frances Berry, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Chuck
Collins, Ron Daniels, V. P. Franklin, Danny Glover, Adom Gretachew,
Charles Henry, Kamm Howard, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Jesse Jackson,
Sr., Brian Jones, Sheila Jackson Lee, James B. Stewart, the
Movement 4 Black Lives, the National African American Reparations
Commission, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in
America, the New Afrikan Peoples Organization/Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement
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Reparations for Nazi victims in postwar Europe
\"Reparations of Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe traces reparations back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War, when victims of Nazi persecution for the first time articulated demands for indemnification en masse. Simultaneous appearance of claims in New York, London, Paris and Tel Aviv exemplified the birth of a new standard in political morality. Across Europe, the demand for compensation to individuals who suffered severe harm gained momentum. Despite vast differences in their experiences of mass victimisation, post-war societies developed similar patterns in addressing victims' claims. Regula Ludi chronicles the history of reparations from a comparative and trans-national perspective. This book explores the significance of reparations as a means to provide victims with a language to express their unspeakable suffering in a politically meaningful way\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
Reparations of Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe traces reparations back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War, when victims of Nazi persecution for the first time articulated demands for indemnification en masse. Simultaneous appearance of claims in New York, London, Paris and Tel Aviv exemplified the birth of a new standard in political morality. Across Europe, the demand for compensation to individuals who suffered severe harm gained momentum. Despite vast differences in their experiences of mass victimisation, post-war societies developed similar patterns in addressing victims' claims. Regula Ludi chronicles the history of reparations from a comparative and trans-national perspective. This book explores the significance of reparations as a means to provide victims with a language to express their unspeakable suffering in a politically meaningful way.
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R is for reparations : young activists speaking their truth
\"Coming out of the innovative Book-in-a-Day event facilitated by the Global Afrikan Congress--Nova Scotia Chapter, R Is for Reparations invites readers to listen to the voices of young activists as they share their hopes and dreams about the global demand for redress, compensation and restitution for the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade. This book is drawn from the voices of the children who participated in the Book-in-a-Day event and rode on an imaginary Underground Railroad Freedom ride, equipped with Elders who served as \"conductors\" and \"station\" stops. Their words address the tragedy and resulting political, social, and economic damage caused to African People by the slave trade, slavery, colonialism, poverty and anti-Black racism. Their reactions and reflections lead the contributions for this compelling, one-of-a-kind Alphabet Book suitable for all ages.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The right to reparation in international law for victims of armed conflict
Using a range of case studies, Christine Evans analyses efforts to implement the right to reparation in international law for victims of armed conflict and explores the role of the UN in promoting State responsibility for reparations through transitional justice measures.
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