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The Healing of Nations - The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness (Paperback)
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The Healing of Nations - The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness (Paperback)
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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 political
ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by
political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding
prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the
international community away from moving on to the next step in
regime change. Here, Mark R. Amstutz takes a restorative justice
approach, calling for nations to account for crimes through truth
commissions, public apology and repentance, reparations, and
ultimately forgiveness and the lifting of deserved penalties. The
distinctive feature of forgiveness is the balance it strikes
between backward-looking accountability and forward-looking
reconciliation. The Healing of Nations combines a theory of the
role of forgiveness in public life with four key case studies that
test this ethic: Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South
Africa. Amstutz uses the hard cases to illustrate the promise and
limits of forgiving without forgetting.
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