Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide & Mass Violence - Hardcover

Minow, Martha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807045063 ISBN 13: 9780807045060

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1998

Synopsis

Looks at the processes of healing, remembering, forgetting, forgiving, avenging, and educating, as societies confront the past horrors of mass violence and genocide

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Review:

Skillfully explores what steps can be taken in the wake of mass atrocities. . . . Incisive and insightful. --Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor

"Compassionate and well-reasoned . . . Minow makes a convincing case for the restorative power of speaking about trauma." --Alexandra Starr, Washington Monthly

"A deeply humane and empathetic argument." --Alice Kessler-Harris, The Women's Review of Books

"Offers a remarkable analysis of a troublesome legacy." --Donald W. Shriver Jr., The Christian Century

"In taking a closer look at the social and historical roots of genocide and mass violence, Minow recognizes that justice is a process, not an end. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness is complicated, ambiguous, and deeply unsatisfying-exactly as it ought to be." --Nicholas Confessore, The American Prospect

About the Author:

Martha Minow is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is author of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law and Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and Law. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807045063
• ISBN 13: 9780807045060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192