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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibney, Mark.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apologies.

Apologizing--Political aspects.

Apologizing.

Truth commissions.

Civilization, Western--Historiography.

Civilization, Western.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Physical Description:

vii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder

Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson

Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman

Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln

Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson.

Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming

The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy

The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff

Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James

Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs.

Part III: International apologies of states. State apolgies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi

"Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens

Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa

Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo

Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr

Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl.

Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. Marrus

Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa.

Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner

The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812240337

0812240332

OCLC:

180254858