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International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access published online on May 9, 2009
International Journal of Transitional Justice, doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijp007
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Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, ed. Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar; Reparations to Africa, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo

Cristián Correa

Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, USA. Email: ccorrea@ictj.org

Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, ed. Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar. Oxford University Press, February 2007, 368pp. ISBN: 9780199299911 – hardcover (£58).

Reparations to Africa, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo. University of Pennsylvania Press, July 2008, 264pp. ISBN: 9780812241013 – hardcover ($49.95).

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Both of the books reviewed here provide deep analysis regarding the challenges of repairing historical mass crimes and past harmful policies, as well as the limitations and difficulties of such endeavors. They are important contributions not just to the general debate on reparations, but more specifically to the application of these debates to the topic of reparations for Africa.

Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, a compilation edited by Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar, attempts a comprehensive overview of reparations for historical and mass human rights violations. It encompasses the interesting debate on the search for a political theory that justifies reparations; presents the limitations of the notions behind this search; and provides arguments to help define who might be entitled to reparations, who might be responsible for paying reparations and what reparations might include. In the more recent Reparations to Africa, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann localizes some of these debates and provides . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Defining the Goals of Reparations
 

   Forms Reparations Might Take: Beyond a Legalistic or Strictly Compensatory Approach
 

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