The Guilt of Nations
Author : Elazar Barkan
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393048865
Author : Elazar Barkan
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393048865
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Elazar Barkan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2001-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801868078
The author takes a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of politics. She confronts the difficulties of determining victims and assigning blame.
Author : ELAZAR BARKAN.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2022
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Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1590178599
In this now classic book, internationally famed journalist Ian Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their conduct during World War II—a war that they aggressively began and humiliatingly lost, and in the course of which they committed monstrous war crimes. As he travels through both countries, to Berlin and Tokyo, Hiroshima and Auschwitz, he encounters people who are remarkably honest in confronting the past and others who astonish by their evasions of responsibility, some who wish to forget the past and others who wish to use it as a warning against the resurgence of militarism. Buruma explores these contrasting responses to the war and the two countries’ very different ways of memorializing its atrocities, as well as the ways in which political movements, government policies, literature, and art have been shaped by its shadow. Today, seventy years after the end of the war, he finds that while the Germans have for the most part coped with the darkest period of their history, the Japanese remain haunted by historical controversies that should have been resolved long ago. Sensitive yet unsparing, complex and unsettling, this is a profound study of how people face up to or deny terrible legacies of guilt and shame.
Author : Nyla R. Branscombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521520836
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Author : Bernhard Schlink
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0702251925
Guilt about the Past explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not only to individual perpetrators. It considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, and the role of law in this process. Based on the Weidenfeld Lectures author Bernhard Schlink delivered at Oxford University, Guilt about the Past is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, these essays tap in to the worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
Author : Mark R. Amstutz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742535817
How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of political ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the international community away from moving on to the next step in regime change. Here, Mark R. Amstutz takes a restorative justice approach, calling for nations to account for crimes through truth commissions, public apology and repentance, reparations, and ultimately forgiveness and the lifting of deserved penalties. The distinctive feature of forgiveness is the balance it strikes between backward-looking accountability and forward-looking reconciliation. The Healing of Nations combines a theory of the role of forgiveness in public life with four key case studies that test this ethic: Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Amstutz uses the hard cases to illustrate the promise and limits of forgiving without forgetting.
Author : Samantha Nutt
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 077105145X
The extraordinary humanitarian Samantha Nutt gives a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world - and a new, provocative vision for changing course on growing militarisation. It is a brilliant distillation of Dr Nutt's observations over the course of 15 years providing hands-on care in some of the world's most violent flashpoints. Combining original research with her personal story, it is a deeply thoughtful meditation on war as it is being waged around the world against millions of civilians.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576755126
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.