The age of apology : facing up to the past /
The age of apology : facing up to the past /
edited by Mark Gibney [and others].
- vii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights .
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Apologies and the West -- Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law -- Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology -- Historical injustice and Liberal political theory -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology -- Internal apologies by states -- When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery -- The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning -- The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted -- Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada -- Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process -- International apologies of states -- State apologies under U.S. hegemony -- "Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo -- Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" -- Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" -- Colonialism, slavery and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective -- Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors -- Apologies by non-state actors -- Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II -- Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa -- The war on terror -- Apology and the American "war on terror" -- The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia?. Introduction. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Part IV. 17. 18. Part V. 19. 20.
0812240332 9780812240337 0812220870 9780812220872
Truth commissions
Apologizing--Political aspects
Civilization, Western--Historiography
Reparations for historical injustices
JC580 / .A44 2008
303.69
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Apologies and the West -- Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law -- Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology -- Historical injustice and Liberal political theory -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology -- Internal apologies by states -- When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery -- The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning -- The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted -- Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada -- Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process -- International apologies of states -- State apologies under U.S. hegemony -- "Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo -- Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" -- Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" -- Colonialism, slavery and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective -- Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors -- Apologies by non-state actors -- Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II -- Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa -- The war on terror -- Apology and the American "war on terror" -- The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia?. Introduction. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Part IV. 17. 18. Part V. 19. 20.
0812240332 9780812240337 0812220870 9780812220872
Truth commissions
Apologizing--Political aspects
Civilization, Western--Historiography
Reparations for historical injustices
JC580 / .A44 2008
303.69