Overview: Looks at the whole range of ways in which some countries’ experience of atoning for past crimes come to be seen as models for others to follow and adapt.Uses the “German model” and looks at how it has.This collection examines what happens when one country’s experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turkey, the United States and former Yugoslavia, the authors look at the pitfalls, misunderstandings and perverse effects–but also the promise–of tryi
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