From the Book - Expanded and updated ed.
Concepts. Making peace or doing justice: must we choose? / Nigel Biggar
Where and when in political life is justice served by forgiveness? / Donald W. Shriver
Politics and forgiveness / Jean Bethke Elshtain
The philosophy and practice of dealing with the past: some conceptual and normative issues / Tuomas Forsberg.
Dimensions. Innovating responses to the past: human rights institutions / Martha Minow
National and community reconciliation: competing agendas in South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Hugo van der Merwe
Putting the past in its place: issues of victimhood and reconciliation in Northern Ireland's peace process / Marie Smyth
Does the truth heal? A psychological perspective on political strategies for dealing with the legacy of political violence / Brandon Hamber.
Cases. Passion, constraint, law, and fortuna: the human rights challenge to Chilean democracy / Alexandra Barahona de Brito
War, peace, and the politics of memory in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder
Restorative justice in social context: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Charles Villa-Vicencio
Rwanda: dealing with genocide and crimes against humanity in the context of armed conflict and failed political transition / Stef Vandeginste
Northern Ireland: burying the hatchet, not the past / Terence McCaughey.
Conclusion / Nigel Biggar
Burying the past after September 11 / Nigel Biggar.
