- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- <b>Introduction</b> Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile
- Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil
- Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti
- Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi
- Chapter 7 Report on Redress
- Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11
- Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission
- Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
- Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers
- Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations
- Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice
- Chapter 14 Justice in Context
- Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation
- Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro
- Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions
- Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs
- Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes
- Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- <b>USA</b>
- USA
- <b>Germany</b>
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX
Justice and Reparations
Justice and Reparations
- Chapter:
- (p.451) Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations
- Source:
- The Handbook of Reparations
- Author(s):
Pablo de Greiff (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper seeks to articulate a conception of justice in reparations for victims of human rights violations when the aim is to repair a large number of cases, as opposed to individual, isolated cases. It starts with an effort to establish some semantic clarity by trying to distinguish between two different contexts for the use of the term “reparations”. It discusses some of the problems with merely transplanting the ideal of compensation in proportion to harm from its natural home in the resolution of individual judicial cases, and using it as a standard of justice for massive reparations programs. Instead, it argues in favor of thinking about justice in the context of massive cases in terms of the achievement of three goals, namely, recognition, civic trust, and social solidarity — three goals that are intimately related to justice. Finally, it tries to shed light on the basic trade-offs that accompany some of the choices that have to be made in the process of constructing a comprehensive and coherent reparations program.
Keywords: justice, compensation, reparations program, recognition, civic trust, social solidarity
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- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- <b>Introduction</b> Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile
- Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil
- Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti
- Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi
- Chapter 7 Report on Redress
- Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11
- Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission
- Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
- Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers
- Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations
- Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice
- Chapter 14 Justice in Context
- Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation
- Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro
- Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions
- Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs
- Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes
- Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- <b>USA</b>
- USA
- <b>Germany</b>
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX