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Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of past injustice. Can apology, by bringing closure to conflicts and by opening new possibilities for communication and mutual understanding, cultivate reconciliation and ameliorate the present? Taking Wrongs Seriously examines the increasingly potent role of apology as a social force. Contributors explore in a comparative and interdisciplinary framework the role and function—as well as the limitations—that apology has in promoting dialogue, tolerance, and cooperation between groups confronting one another over past injustices. Fourteen essays draw on a variety of disciplines—including history, international relations, transition studies, sociology, legal studies, psychology, and religion—to explore the real and symbolic transactions that lie at the core of apology. There is no similar introductory text on this subject that includes multiple disciplinary perspectives as well as such a wide geographical and historical spectrum of case studies.
Contents
Contents Contributors 000 Part I. An Ethical Imperative: Group Apology and the Prac- tice of Justice 1. Introduction: Taking Wrongs Seriously 3 Elazar Barkan and Alexander Karn Part II. Amending the Past: Conceptual Approaches and Im- pediments 2. Truth Commissions, and Intrastate Conflict 000 Robert Rotberg, Apology 3. Punishment, Reconciliation, and Democratic Deliberation 000 David Crocker 4. Forgive and Not Forget: Reconciliation between Forgive- ness and Resentment 000 Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider 5. The Transitional Apology 000 Ruti Teitel 6. What Some Monuments Tell Us about Mourning and Forgive- ness 000 Vamik Volkan 7. Apologies and Reconciliation: Middle-Eastern Rituals 000 George Irani III. Case Studies: Australia, America, and Europe 8. The Apology in Australia: Re-Covenanting the National Imaginary 000 Danielle Celermajer 9. The BIA's Apology to Native Americans: An Essay on Col- lective Memory and Collective Conscience 000 Rebecca Tsosie 10. The New Patriotism and Apology for Slavery 000 Roy Brooks 11. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, Apologies, and Repara- tions: Understanding the Function and Limitations of a His- torical Truth Commission 000 Alfred Brophy 12. The Apology Moment: Vichy Memories in 1990s France 000 Julie Fette 13. Justice Apology, and Reconciliation and the German Foun- dation Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future 000 J. D. Bindenagel 14. The Worst Is Yet to Come: Abu Ghraib and the Ethics of Not Apologizing 000 Elazar Barkan Notes 000 Index 000
