Between Vengeance and Forgiveness Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing.

Martha Minow is professor of law at Harvard Law School and author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness (Beacon / 4507-1 / $14.00 pb). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.