Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (Cultural Sitings)

352 Pages·2006·0.95 MB·English

by  Elazar Barkan

Taking Wrongs Seriously:
Apologies and
Reconciliation
Elazar Barkan
Alexander Karn
Editors
Stanford University Press
Taking Wrongs Seriously:
Apologies and Reconciliation

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Taking Wrongs Seriously
Apologies and Reconciliation
e d i t e d b y
Elazar Barkan
Alexander Karn
s t a n f o r d
u n i v e r s i t y
p r e s s
Stanford,
California
2006
StanfordUniversityPress
Stanford,California
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1.Interpersonalrelations. 2.Apologizing—Socialaspects.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
part i: AnEthicalImperative:GroupApologyandthe
PracticeofJustice
1 GroupApologyasanEthicalImperative 3
elazar barkan and alexander karn
part ii: AmendingthePast:Conceptual
ApproachesandImpediments
2 Apology,TruthCommissions,andIntrastateConflict 33
robert i. rotberg
3 Punishment,Reconciliation,andDemocraticDeliberation 50
david a. crocker
4 ForgiveandNotForget:ReconciliationBetween
ForgivenessandResentment 83
daniel levy and natan sznaider
5 TheTransitionalApology 101
ruti teitel
6 WhatSomeMonumentsTellUsAbout
MourningandForgiveness 115
vamik d. volkan
7 ApologiesandReconciliation:MiddleEasternRituals 132
george emile irani
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Contents
part iii: CaseStudies:Australia,America,andEurope
8 TheApologyinAustralia:Re-covenantingthe
NationalImaginary 153
danielle celermajer
9 TheBIA’sApologytoNativeAmericans:AnEssayonCollective
MemoryandCollectiveConscience 185
rebecca tsosie
10 TheNewPatriotismandApologyforSlavery 213
roy l. brooks
11 The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, Apology, and Reparation:
Understanding the Functions and Limitations of a Historical
TruthCommission 234
alfred l. brophy
12 TheApologyMoment:VichyMemoriesin1990sFrance 259
julie fette
13 Justice,Apology,Reconciliation,andtheGermanFoundation:
“Remembrance,Responsibility,andtheFuture” 286
j.d. bindenagel
14 TheWorstisYettoCome:AbuGhraibandthePolitics
ofnotApologizing 311
elazar barkan
Index 331
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Contributors
elazar barkanisProfessorofHistoryandCulturalStudiesattheClare-
montGraduateUniversity.HespecializesinmodernEuropeanintellec-
tualandculturalhistory,culturalproperty,imperialism,colonialismand
postcolonialism,historyofanthropology,raceandracism,andprimitivism
andmodernism.ProfessorBarkanhasrecentlycoeditedavolumeforthe
Getty Research institute: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cul-
turalPropertyandtheNegotiationofNationalandEthnicIdentity,with
Ronald Bush. He is also the author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution
and Negotiating Historical Injustices, which addresses a topic on which
he also organized a 1998 conference at Oxford University, and a recent
internationalconferenceinClaremont.HeistheauthorofRetreatofSci-
entificRacismandthecoeditor,withMarie-DeniseShelton(Claremont
McKenna College), of Borders, Exiles, and Diaspora, and with Ronald
Bush,PrehistoriesoftheFuture:Primitivism,ModernismandPolitics.
j.d. bindenagelwas appointed Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues
withtherankofambassador.AmbassadorBindenagelnegotiateda$5bil-
lionsettlementwithGermanyforformerWorldWarIIslavesandforcedla-
borersaspartoftheUnitedStatesGovernmentnegotiatingteam.Inayear
andahalfofintensivenegotiations,hewonthetrustofallpartiesandskill-
fully positioned himself to identify the compromises and tactics needed
tokeepthediscoursecivilandproductiveinreachingagreement.Inad-
dition,hecrisscrossedEuropeandtheUnitedStatestirelessly,promoting
theInternationalCommissiononHolocaustEraInsuranceClaims,which
resultedina$300milliondollarsettlementtopayinsuranceclaimsofthe
heirsofHolocaustvictims.HewasawardedtheStateDepartmentDistin-
guishedHonorAward,andtheCommandersCrossoftheOrderofMerit
oftheFederalRepublicofGermany.
roy brooksistheWarrenDistinguishedProfessorofLaw,Universityof
SanDiego.ProfessorBrooksservedasaneditoroftheYaleLawJournal,
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