Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

By Martha Minow

Release : 1999-11-01

Genre : Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events, Nonfiction, Social Science, History, Military History

Kind : ebook

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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.

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

By Martha Minow

Release : 1999-11-01

Genre : Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events, Nonfiction, Social Science, History, Military History

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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.

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