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Author:   Pablo De Greiff (Director of Research, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.741kg
ISBN:  

9780199545704

ISBN 10:   0199545707
Pages:   1056
Publication Date:   14 August 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Case Studies 1: María José Guembe: Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations: The Argentine Experience 2: Elizabeth Lira: The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile 3: Ignacio Cano, Patrícia Ferreira: The Reparations Program in Brazil 4: Alex Segovia: The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti: A History of Non-Compliance 5: Chris Colvin: Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa 6: Diana Cammack: Reparations in Malawi 7: Eric Yamamoto, Liann Ebesugawa: Report on Redress: The Japanese-American Internment 8: Samuel Issacharoff, Anna Morawiec Mansfield: Compensation for the Victims of September 11th 9: Hans van Houtte, Hans Das and Bart Delmartino: The United Nations Compensation Commission 10: Ariel Colonomos, Andrea Armstrong: German Reparations to the Jews after World War Two: A Turning Point in the History of Reparations 11: John Authers: Making Good Again: Compensation for Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates Part II: Thematic Studies 12: Pablo de Greiff: Justice and Reparations 13: Richard Falk: Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice: A New Frontier 14: Arturo Carrillo: The Relevance of Inter-American Human Rights Law and Practice to Repairing the Past 15: Jaime Malamud-Goti, Lucas Grosman: Reparations and Civil Litigation: Compensation for Human Rights Violations in Transitional Democracies 16: Brandon Hamber: Narrowing the Micro and Macro: A Psychological Perspective on Reparations in Societies in Transition 17: M.Brinton Lykes, Marcie Mersky: Reparations and Mental Health: Psychosocial Interventions towards Healing, Human Agency, and Rethreading Social Realities 18: Colleen Duggan Adila M. Abusharaf: Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions: The Search for Gender Justice 19: Alex Segovia: Financing Reparations Programs: Reflections from International Experience 20: Hans Dieter Seibel with Andrea Armstrong: Reparations and Microfinance Schemes Part III: Primary Documents and Legislation from Case Studies 21: Argentina 22: Nunca Más: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared, Part VI: Recommendations and Conclusions, 'Recommendations' 23: Brazil 24: El Salvador 25: Haiti 26: South Africa 27: Malawi 28: US: Japanese-American Internment 29: US: September 11, 2001 30: Germany: Jewish Victims of the Holocaust 31: Germany: Forced and Slave Labor

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Review from previous edition De Greiff's professional philosophical background is what elevates and distinguishes this Handbook from being merely a how-to exercise...Highly recommended. CHOICE

De Greiff's professional philosophical background is what elevates and distinguishes this Handbook from being merely a how-to exercise...Highly recommended. --CHOICE<br>

Review from previous edition De Greiff's professional philosophical background is what elevates and distinguishes this Handbook from being merely a how-to exercise...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *

Author Information

Pablo De Greiff is Director of Research at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Originally from Colombia, he obtained his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Northwestern University. As Director of the ICTJ's Research Unit, he has overseen a global reparations project and has been actively engaged in disseminating the results via papers, conferences, and technical assistance in Guatemala, Peru, and to the United Nations. Prior to joining ICTJ, he was associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written extensively on transitions to democracy, democratic theory, and the relationship between morality, politics, and law. From 2000 to 2001, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

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