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Tutu, D. (1996). The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution (Reprint edition). Image.

The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, Tutu's words and presence helped shape events and led South Africa toward justice and freedom. This astonishing tapestry of narrative is not only a valuable historical document of those significant events, but it also...

Lemieux, V. L., & Trapnell, S. E. (2016). Public Access to Information for Development: A Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws. The World Bank. https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/epdf/10.1596/978-1-4648-0879-1

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Bien, W. J., Bouckaert, P., Hanson, A., Khachikian, A., King, K., Laudy, M., Levy, T., Messing, B., Stettenheim, J., Tang, R., & Weinthal, E. (1999). Words Over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict (M. Greenberg, J. H. Barton, & M. E. McGuinness, Eds.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international organizations_the United Nations, international development banks, and international law...

Allan, K. (Ed.). (2009). Paper Wars: Access to Information in South Africa. Wits University Press. https://foip.saha.org.za/static/paper-wars-access-to-information-in-south-africa

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Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports. United States Institute of Peace.

Includes over 100 laws, regulations and decrees, constitutional provisions, judicial decisions, reports of official, commissions of inquiry, and treaty excerpts from 28 countries and from international organizations.

Timm, A. (1997). Jewish Claims against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy. Central European University Press. https://doi.org/10.7829/j.ctv280b6q6

This is the first comprehensive history of Jewish negotiations with East Germany regarding restitution and reparations for Nazi war crimes. Angelika Timm analyzes the politics of old and new anti-Semitism and the context in which they grew under the officially propagated ideology of antifascism. Investigating the mass of unpublished, newly available archival data from the United States, Israel, and the former German Democratic Republic, and more than forty personal interviews, Timm fills a...

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Pross, C. (1824). Paying for the Past: The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror by Christian Pross. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Brooks, R. L. (Ed.). (1999). When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. NYU Press.

Leading scholars, activists, and political leaders on being victim's of the world's worst atrocities"How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?"?Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human RightsSeemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer $20,000...

Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional justice: how emerging democracies reckon with former regimes. United States Institute of Peace Press.

Sanford, G. (2005). Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Katyn-and-the-Soviet-Massacre-of-1940-Truth-Justice-and-Memory/Sanford/p/book/9780415545945

The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States and Britain who wished to hold together their wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. This informative book examines the details of this often overlooked event, shedding light on what took place especially in relation to the massacres at l

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Ridener, J., & Cook, T. (2009). From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory. Litwin Books.

From Polders to Postmodernism is a broad ranging history of the conception and development of the theories that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Narrated through the controversial thread of archival appraisal theory, the book examines how archivists have engaged with theory through the tension between keeping records that reflect objective history "as it happened" and subjective decision making in the archive. Through an interpretive...

Leitenberg, M. (2006). Deaths in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century. Cornell University.

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Kecskeméti, C., & Székely, I. (2005). Access to archives - A handbook of guidelines for implementation of Recommendation No R(2000)13 on a European policy on access to archives. Council of Europe. https://book.coe.int/en/cultural-policies/3277-access-to-archives-a-handbook-of-guidelines-for-implementation-of-recommendation-no-r200013-on-a-european-policy-on-access-to-archives.html

In the early 1990s, when Europe ceased to be divided in opposing political blocs, the Council of Europe concluded that access to archives was one of the key issues to be addressed in. order to fortify democracy throughout the continent. Intensive, in-depth preparation led to the drafting of Recommendation No. R (2000) 13 on a European Policy on Access to Archives, the first intergovernmental standard in this field.The recommendation is motivated by the ethical conviction that knowledge of...

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Judt, T. (2006). Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Illustrated edition). Penguin Books.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston GlobeAlmost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed...

Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Revised ed. edition). University of Oklahoma Press.

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more...

Hobsbawm, E. (1996). The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (Illustrated edition). Vintage.

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a...

Hayner, P. B. (2010). Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions (2 edition). Routledge.

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and...

Haldemann, F., & Unger, T. (Eds.). (2018). The United Nations Set of Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary. Oxford University Press.

The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community. Updated in 2005, the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Combat Impunity is the fruit of several years of study, developed under the aegis of the UN Commission on Human Rights and then affirmed by the Human Rights Council. These Principles are today widely accepted as constituting an authoritative reference point for efforts in the fight against impunity...

Borggräfe, H., Höschler, C., Panek, I., & Arolsen Archives. (2019). A Paper Monument: The History of the Arolsen Archive. Bad Arolsen.

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People in Need (Organization) (Ed.). (2006). Transformation: the Czech experience. People in Need. http://www.mzv.cz/file/582145/anglicka_verze.pdf

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