The age of apology : facing up to the past / edited by Mark Gibney ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Apologies and the West / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gilmey -- Part I Law, Ethics, and the Theory Behind Apologies -- The Role of Apology in International Law / Richard B. Bilder -- Apology, Justice, and Respect: A Critical Defense of Political Apology / Janna Thompson -- Historical Injustice and Liberal Political Theory / Michael Freeman -- Apologies: A Crass-Cultural Analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Elements of a Road Map for a Politics of Apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jonsson -- Part II Internal Apologies by States -- When Sorry Is Enough: The Possibility of a National Apology for Slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming -- The University and the Slaves: Apology and Its Meaning / Alfred L. Brophy -- The Role of Apologies in National Reconciliation Processes: On Making Trustworthy Institutions Trusted / Pablo de Greiff -- Wrestling with the Past: Apologies, Quasi-Apologies, and Non-Apologies in Canada / Matt James -- Apology and Reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Process / Meredith Gibbs -- Part III International Apologies of States -- State Apologies Under U.S. Hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi -- "Deliver Us from Original Sin" : Belgian Apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens -- Germany Faces Colonial History in Namibia: A Very Ambiguous "I Am Sorry" / Leonard Jamfa -- Words Require Action: African Elite Opinion About Apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo -- Colonialism, Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Dutch Perspective / Peter Baehr -- Is Japan Facing Its Past? The Case of Japan and Its Neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl -- Part IV Apologies by Non-State Actors -- Papal Apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R Marrus -- Rethinking Corporate Apologies: Business and Apartheid Victimization in South Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Part V The War on Terror -- Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner -- The Fourth Estate and the Case for War in Iraq: Apology or Apologia? / Jonathan Marks.