Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Critical Human Rights
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Critical Human Rights
ISBN: 978-0-299-30550-5
Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
Alexander Karn analyzes more than a dozen Holocaust commissions—in Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and elsewhere— in a comparative framework, situating each in the context of past and present politics, to evaluate their potential for promoting justice and their capacity for bringing the perspectives of rival groups more closely together. Karn also evaluates the media coverage these commissions received and probes their public reception from multiple angles.
Arguing that historical commissions have been underused as a tool for conflict management, Karn develops a program for historical mediation and moral reparation that can deepen democratic commitment and strengthen human rights in both transitional regimes and existing liberal states.