Author : Martha Minow
Release : 2001-01-17
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Between Vengeance and Forgiveness by : Martha Minow
Download or read book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness written by Martha Minow. This book was released on 2001-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing.