The Healing of Nations The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness

by Amstutz, Mark R.

• ISBN13: 9780742535800
• ISBN10: 0742535800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of p

Author Biography

Mark R. Amstutz is professor of political science at Wheaton College in Illinois.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Confronting Human Rights Abuses: Approaches to Transitional Justice	17	(24)
The Nature and Purpose of Forgiveness	41	(25)
The Possibility and Promise of Political Forgiveness	66	(25)
Justice, Reconciliation, and Political Forgiveness	91	(23)
Retributive Justice and the Limits of Forgiveness in Argentina	114	(25)
The Quest for Reconciliation through Truth Telling in Chile	139	(25)
Intractable Politics without Truth or Forgiveness: The Case of Northern Ireland	164	(23)
The Promise of Reconciliation through Truth and Some Forgiveness in South Africa	187	(24)
Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Political Forgiveness	211	(23)
Notes	234	(33)
Index	267	(16)
About the Author	283