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This has been a descriptive argument. The argument provides a political theory of state redress, a theory that can account for the rectificatory practice of states in terms appropriate to the political sphere. The basic framework of the theory uses concepts derived from the liberal theory of the state to set out why authorized wrongdoing is a problem, why it becomes visible as a problem during political transitions and how state redress alleviates those problems by enacting reasons that legitimate the state.
At last I heard a voice upon the slope
Cry to the summit, ‘Is there any hope?’
—Tennyson
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Cf. Jürgen Habermas, ‘Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe’, in Theorizing Citizenship, ed. Ronald Beiner (Albany: University of New York Press, 1995).
Ruti Teitel, ‘Transitional Jurisprudence: The Role of Law in Political Transformation’, The Yale Law Journal 106, no. 7 (1997): 2014.
Teitel, Transitional Justice, 229. See also Louis Bickford, ‘Transitional Justice’, in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, ed. Dinah L. Shelton (New York: Macmillan, 2004).
For a varied descriptions of reconciliation, see John P. Hopkins, ‘Maori Education: The Politics of Reconciliation and Citizenship’, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum 2, no. 1 (2012), http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol2/iss1/4; T. Govier and W. Verwoerd, ‘Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32, no. 2 (2002); Bashir Bashir and Will Kymlicka, ‘Introduction’, in The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies, ed. Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 12–17.
For discussion of the need for such restriction, see Michael Ridge, ‘Giving the Dead Their Due’, Ethics 114, no. 1 (2003): 51.
For an argument stressing the problem of ‘grey areas’ in persistence, see David Miller, ‘Holding Nations Responsible’, Ethics 114, no. 2 (2004): 243–244. I try to answer his argument in an unpublished paper ‘Theorizing the Political Apology’.
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Winter, S. (2014). Conclusion. In: Transitional Justice in Established Democracies. International Political Theory series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316196_10
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