The Handbook of Reparations
Published on 14. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
1056 pages
978-0-19-954570-4 (ISBN)
Description
This Handbook is provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world; includes thematic papers on topics that frequently come about in the design and implementation of reparations programs; and, finally, reproduces key documents on reparations, including national legislation.
In addition to providing a wealth of factual information about a wide range of reparations programs (some of them previously unexamined), the thematic papers break new ground, tackling issues that have not been sufficiently addressed (if at all) in the literature, including the very notion of justice in reparations for the massive cases, the relationship between material compensation and other symbolic measures of reparations, and the complicated set of questions around how to provide reparations to victims of sexual violence.
Finally, the book makes available fundamental documents on reparations, including national legislation. These documents - which are either difficult to find or have never been translated into English before - are both directly relevant to the case studies and the thematic papers, and illuminating to those thinking prospectively about the design and implementation of reparations programs.
In addition to providing a wealth of factual information about a wide range of reparations programs (some of them previously unexamined), the thematic papers break new ground, tackling issues that have not been sufficiently addressed (if at all) in the literature, including the very notion of justice in reparations for the massive cases, the relationship between material compensation and other symbolic measures of reparations, and the complicated set of questions around how to provide reparations to victims of sexual violence.
Finally, the book makes available fundamental documents on reparations, including national legislation. These documents - which are either difficult to find or have never been translated into English before - are both directly relevant to the case studies and the thematic papers, and illuminating to those thinking prospectively about the design and implementation of reparations programs.
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Review from previous edition De Greiff's professional philosophical background is what elevates and distinguishes this Handbook from being merely a how-to exercise...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 57 mm
Weight
1779 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-954570-4 (9780199545704)
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Person
Pablo De Greiff is Director of Research at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Originally from Colombia, he obtained his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Northwestern University. As Director of the ICTJ's Research Unit, he has overseen a global reparations project and has been actively engaged in disseminating the results via papers, conferences, and technical assistance in Guatemala, Peru, and to the United Nations. Prior to joining ICTJ, he was associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written extensively on transitions to democracy, democratic theory, and the relationship between morality, politics, and law. From 2000 to 2001, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Content
PART I: CASE STUDIES ; 1. Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations: The Argentine Experience ; 2. The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile ; 3. The Reparations Program in Brazil ; 4. The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti: A History of Non-Compliance ; 5. Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa ; 6. Reparations in Malawi ; 7. Report on Redress: The Japanese-American Internment ; 8. Compensation for the Victims of September 11th ; 9. The United Nations Compensation Commission ; 10. German Reparations to the Jews after World War Two: A Turning Point in the History of Reparations ; 11. Making Good Again: Compensation for Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates ; PART II: THEMATIC STUDIES ; 12. Justice and Reparations ; 13. Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice: A New Frontier ; 14. The Relevance of Inter-American Human Rights Law and Practice to Repairing the Past ; 15. Reparations and Civil Litigation: Compensation for Human Rights Violations in Transitional Democracies ; 16. Narrowing the Micro and Macro: A Psychological Perspective on Reparations in Societies in Transition ; 17. Reparations and Mental Health: Psychosocial Interventions towards Healing, Human Agency, and Rethreading Social Realities ; 18. Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions: The Search for Gender Justice ; 19. Financing Reparations Programs: Reflections from International Experience ; 20. Reparations and Microfinance Schemes ; PART III: PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AND LEGISLATION FROM CASE STUDIES ; 21. Argentina ; 22. Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared, ; PART VI: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS, 'RECOMMENDATIONS' ; 23. Brazil ; 24. El Salvador ; 25. Haiti ; 26. South Africa ; 27. Malawi ; 28. US: Japanese-American Internment ; 29. US: September 11, 2001 ; 30. Germany: Jewish Victims of the Holocaust ; 31. Germany: Forced and Slave Labor