TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibney,Mark
TI  - The age of apology: facing up to the past 
T2  - Pennsylvania studies in human rights
SN  - 0812240332
AV  - JC580 .A44 2008
U1  - 303.69 23
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Truth commissions
KW  - Apologizing
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Reparations for historical injustices
N1  - 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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