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Title:

The age of apology : facing up to the past / edited by Mark Gibney ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vii, 333 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Truth commissions.
Apologizing--Political aspects.
Civilization, Western--Historiography.
Reparations for historical injustices.

Other Authors:

Gibney, Mark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq : apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks. Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. 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, Jibecke Jönsson -- Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough : the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming -- University and the slaves : apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy -- 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 -- 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, 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 -- 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 / Bonny Ibhawoh -- War on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney, Niklaus Steiner -- Fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq : apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

ISBN:

0812240332
9780812240337

OCLC:

(OCoLC)180254858

LCCN:

2008295552

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)