International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on September 26, 2008
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2008 2(3):429-430; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijn024
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The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, ed. Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner
Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group, Department of Political Science, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Email: jquinn2@uwo.ca
University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2008, 344pp. ISBN: 9780812240337 – hardcover ($59.95)
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The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past is an important contribution to the literature surrounding the role of apology and, more broadly, reparation. Such discussions have been lacking in the transitional justice literature to this point. The book builds on a conversation generated by scholars like Elazar Barkan in