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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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Confronting Human Rights Abuses: Approaches to Transitional Justice
Chapter 3 The Nature and Purpose of Forgiveness
Chapter 4 The Possibility and Promise of Political Forgiveness
Chapter 5 Justice, Reconciliation, and Political Forgiveness
Chapter 6 Retributive Justice and the Limits of Forgiveness in Argentina
Chapter 7 The Quest for Reconciliation Through Truth Telling in Chile
Chapter 8 Intractable Politics Without Truth or Forgiveness: The Case of Northern Ireland
Chapter 9 The Promise of Reconciliation Through Truth and Some Forgiveness in South Africa
Chapter 10 Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Political Forgiveness
Product details
| Published | Jul 29 2004 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 294 |
| ISBN | 9780742535817 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 229 x 148 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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