Offering the most comprehensive book-length study to-date of reparation programmes, this Handbook contains an innovative blend of case-study analysis, thematic papers, and national legislation documents from leading scholars and practitioners.

PART I: CASE STUDIES ; 1. Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations: The Argentine Experience ; 2. The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile ; 3. The Reparations Program in Brazil ; 4. The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti: A History of Non-Compliance ; 5. Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa ; 6. Reparations in Malawi ; 7. Report on Redress: The Japanese-American Internment ; 8. Compensation for the Victims of September 11th ; 9. The United Nations Compensation Commission ; 10. German Reparations to the Jews after World War Two: A Turning Point in the History of Reparations ; 11. Making Good Again: Compensation for Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates ; PART II: THEMATIC STUDIES ; 12. Justice and Reparations ; 13. Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice: A New Frontier ; 14. The Relevance of Inter-American Human Rights Law and Practice to Repairing the Past ; 15. Reparations and Civil Litigation: Compensation for Human Rights Violations in Transitional Democracies ; 16. Narrowing the Micro and Macro: A Psychological Perspective on Reparations in Societies in Transition ; 17. Reparations and Mental Health: Psychosocial Interventions towards Healing, Human Agency, and Rethreading Social Realities ; 18. Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions: The Search for Gender Justice ; 19. Financing Reparations Programs: Reflections from International Experience ; 20. Reparations and Microfinance Schemes ; PART III: PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AND LEGISLATION FROM CASE STUDIES ; 21. Argentina ; 22. Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared, ; PART VI: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS, 'RECOMMENDATIONS' ; 23. Brazil ; 24. El Salvador ; 25. Haiti ; 26. South Africa ; 27. Malawi ; 28. US: Japanese-American Internment ; 29. US: September 11, 2001 ; 30. Germany: Jewish Victims of the Holocaust ; 31. Germany: Forced and Slave Labor

`Review from previous edition De Greiff's professional philosophical background is what elevates and distinguishes this Handbook from being merely a how-to exercise...Highly recommended. ' CHOICE

Most comprehensive book-length study of reparation programmes currently available, including case-studies, thematic chapters, and national legislation documents Contains contributions from an international and cross-disciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners Provides answers to questions which frequently arise in the design and implementation of large-scale reparation programmes around the world Will have a genuine impact on both the theory and practice of future reparation programmes

Pablo De Greiff is Director of Research at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Originally from Colombia, he obtained his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Northwestern University. As Director of the ICTJ's Research Unit, he has overseen a global reparations project and has been actively engaged in disseminating the results via papers, conferences, and technical assistance in Guatemala, Peru, and to the United Nations. Prior to joining ICTJ, he was associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written extensively on transitions to democracy, democratic theory, and the relationship between morality, politics, and law. From 2000 to 2001, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Most comprehensive book-length study of reparation programmes currently available, including case-studies, thematic chapters, and national legislation documents Contains contributions from an international and cross-disciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners Provides answers to questions which frequently arise in the design and implementation of large-scale reparation programmes around the world Will have a genuine impact on both the theory and practice of future reparation programmes