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Making Sense of Mass Atrocity. By Mark Osiel. Cambridge University Press2009. Pp. 276. $87.83. ISBN: 0-521-86185-3.
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Making Sense of Mass Atrocity. By Mark Osiel. Cambridge University Press2009. Pp. 276. $87.83. ISBN: 0-521-86185-3.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2015
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1. For a comparison and contrast of legal trials and truth commissions, for social recovery from atrocity, see Shriver, Donald W., Truth Commissions and Judicial Trials: Complementary or Antagonistic Servants of Public Justice, 16 J.L. & Religion 1–33 (2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2. See, e.g., Niebuhr, H. Richard, The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy 61–65 (Harper & Row 1963)Google Scholar.
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4. Id. at 169.
5. Id. at 28.
6. Id. at 159. For social reconciliation after atrocity, a resort to truth commissions often has complemented legal trials. For a comparison and contrast of the two strategies, see Shriver, supra note 1.
7. De Gruchy, supra note 3, at 199. Cf. Volf, Miroslav, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon Press 1996)Google Scholar. On the critical importance of justice in any morally sustainable definition of “forgiveness,” both normatively and in practice, Cf. Shriver, Donald W., An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics 9 (Oxford Univ. Press 1995)Google Scholar.