This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices. The volume draws on legal scholars, political scientists

"Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and

What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them? Grounded in political theory and guided by the

This book provides a complete survey of research and theory on human memory in three major sections. A background section covers issues of the history of memory