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| Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
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Edition: 1
Author: Martha Minow
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date: 1999-11-01
ISBN-10: 0807045071
ISBN-13: 9780807045077
List Price: $18.00
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"Skillfully explores what steps can be taken in the wake of mass atrocities. . . . Incisive and insightful."
—Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor
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.
"Compassionate and well-reasoned. . . . Minow makes a convincing case for the restorative power of speaking about trauma."
—Alexandra Starr, Washington Monthly
"At the close of this century of death camps, killing fields and desaparecidos, there is perhaps no more urgent question than the one raised in Martha Minow's useful new book: Can societies recover from mass atrocity without falling prey to the legacies of a violent past?"
—Marguerite Feitlowitz, DRCLAS News
"[An] enlightening exploration of a thorny subject."
—Kirkus Reviews
Here is a lady who is not afraid to tackle the big issues.
| Customer Rating: | | For anyone interested in international law or human rights, this is a must-read. I am assigning this book to my undergraduates this semester because, although the subject matter is complex, Minow's prose is clean and spare. Minow does a terrific job of summarizing the episodes of mass violence of the 20th century AND the literature in legal and political studies on war crimes, human rights violations, and justice. I don't always share her optimism that solutions can be found, but I cannot think of another author who grapples with this difficult subject matter quite as gracefully or comprehensively. |
An exercise in the problems of mass violence
| Customer Rating: | | Martha Minow has done her research. She carefully explored the different approaches to mass violence without over-moralizing or answering any of the unanswerable questions. Drawing on history, she charts a course for the human rights community today. This is a readable book for people who are new to the concept of human rights and those who have phD's in the field. Best of all, it does not leave you with a feeling of a weight upon your shoulders. Instead, it is some-how optimistic about a future that addresses the mass violence. I underlined about half of this book, and would recommend it to anyone. |
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