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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania studies in human rightsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: vii, 333 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812240332
  • 9780812240337
  • 0812220870
  • 9780812220872
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.69 23
LOC classification:
  • JC580 .A44 2008
Contents:
Introduction. Apologies and the West -- Part I. Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. 1. The role of apology in international law -- 2. Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology -- 3. Historical injustice and Liberal political theory -- 4. Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis -- 5. Elements of a road map for a politics of apology -- Part II. Internal apologies by states -- 6. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery -- 7. The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning -- 8. The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted -- 9. Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada -- 10. Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process -- Part III. International apologies of states -- 11. State apologies under U.S. hegemony -- 12. "Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo -- 13. Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" -- 14. Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" -- 15. Colonialism, slavery and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective -- 16. Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors -- Part IV. Apologies by non-state actors -- 17. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II -- 18. Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa -- Part V. The war on terror -- 19. Apology and the American "war on terror" -- 20. The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia?.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Apologies and the West -- Part I. Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. 1. The role of apology in international law -- 2. Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology -- 3. Historical injustice and Liberal political theory -- 4. Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis -- 5. Elements of a road map for a politics of apology -- Part II. Internal apologies by states -- 6. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery -- 7. The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning -- 8. The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted -- 9. Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada -- 10. Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process -- Part III. International apologies of states -- 11. State apologies under U.S. hegemony -- 12. "Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo -- 13. Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" -- 14. Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" -- 15. Colonialism, slavery and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective -- 16. Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors -- Part IV. Apologies by non-state actors -- 17. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II -- 18. Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa -- Part V. The war on terror -- 19. Apology and the American "war on terror" -- 20. The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia?.

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