Facing History After Genocide and Mass Murder

The full title is: Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Murder, By Martha Minow,
I thought this a good book to mention here.

Selected pages are in my Google Library, which allows Student, Scholar, and Academic access to people working in similar fields. I'll talk about it the next time I post.

"With "Between Vengeance and Forgiveness," Martha Minow, Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on justice and healing after horrific violence. Remembering and forgetting, judging and forgiving, reconciling and avenging, grieving and educating -- Minow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, to individuals and societies living in the wake of past horrors. She explores the rich and often troubling range of responses to massive, societal-level oppression. She writes of the legacy of war-crime prosecutions, beginning with the Nuremberg trials. She explores whether reparation -- such as the monetary awards given to Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, or art, such as Holocaust memorials -- can be a basis for reconciliation after immeasurable personal and cultural loss. Minow also writes with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa, and in the process delves into the risks and requirements involved in hearing from victims, the dynamics of gender, and the value of even imperfect gestures in the midst of these riveting experiments in justice and healing.

Excerpt:

As already noted, the precise precedent established includes the application of laws to conduct committed before the clear statement of th laws, in sharp contrast to the rule of law.
Indeed one former Nuremberg prosecutor argues that the most important contribution of Nuremberg is the development of a kind of International Law that grows and is always in the process of becoming. "

Page 33-34.