This handbook provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world includes thematic papers on topics that frequently come about in the desaign and implementation of reparations programs; and finally, reproduces key doc…
Conventional views of legal change empasize the values of certainty and reliance, and therefore hostile to explicitly retroactive laws. Put differently, reparations involve wealth transfers where behavioral, or potential anticipation, effects normally associated with compesation related to legal change are absent. The loser is hardly compensated even
What happened to the women? is immense assistance to gender practitioners and scholars working in the fiels of human rights, transitional justice, and peace building. through their analysis and interpretation of the voice of women, the authorsof these case studies begin to make concrete sugestions on how gender advocates can play more positive role in ensuring that reparation becomes a reality …