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Refugees and the Reparations Movement: Reflections on Some Recent Literature
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6JF
megan.bradley@sant.ox.ac.uk
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The Handbook of Reparations. Edited by Pablo de Greiff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxxiii + 1020 pp. £89. ISBN 9780199291922.
Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries. Edited by Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xi + 342 pp. £55. ISBN 9780199299911.
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics. By John Torpey. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 214 pp. $36/£23.95/
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I and the public knowWhat all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
While a handful of scholars have probed the purported link between peace and justice, the notion that a sustainable peace is a just peace has become a mantra amongst many policymakers and civil society activists.1 Whether through formal, ad hoc or traditional means, confronting historical injustices is seen as essential to restoring the rule of law,