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Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: on Reparation Politics.(Book review)
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International Journal on World Peace
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March 1, 2008
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MAKING WHOLE WHAT HAS BEEN SMASHED: ON REPARATION POLITICS
John C. Torpey
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2006
224 pages, hardcover, $36.50
Reparation politics is a vigorous theme of the post-conflict transformation literature. It focuses on the rights of citizens and groups who have been wronged, and aims to bring justice to societies. Modern-day political scientists, who research how to promote transitional justice and reconciliation after mass-scale conflicts, begin by focusing on the past, on what has been smashed. In the process, they facilitate the constructing of a healthy future, on making whole. Sociology ...
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