Time for Reparations

Jacqueline Bhabha is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Margareta Matache is Director of the Roma Program at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

• ForewordAlbie SachsIntroductionJacqueline BhabhaPart I. Addressing the Legacy of Slavery1. Reparations for Slavery: A Productive Strategy?Makau Mutua2. Slavery, Universities, and ReparationsAdam Rothman3. "Free Citizens of This Nation": Cherokee Slavery, Descendants of Freedpeople, and Possibilities for RepairTiya Miles4. The Jamaican Case for Reparations Against the British Government for Slavery and ColonizationBert S. Samuels5. The University and Slavery: Reflections upon the History and Future of the University of the West IndiesSir Hilary Beckles6. French Justice and the Claims for Reparations by Slave Descendants in GuadeloupeMireille Fanon Mendes FrancePart II. Reparations: Precedents and Lessons Learned7. History on Trial: Mau Mau Reparations and the High Court of JusticeCaroline Elkins8. A Critical Assessment of Colombia's Reparations Policies in the Context of the Peace ProcessKathryn Sikkink, Douglas A. Johnson, Phuong Pham, and Patrick Vinck9. Justice Beyond the Final Verdict: The Role of Court-Ordered Reparations in the Struggle for Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in GuatemalaIrma A. VelÁsquez Nimatuj and Aileen Ford10. Colonial History at Court: Legal Decisions and Their Social DilemmasNicole L. ImmlerPart III. Outstanding Issues: Unrepaired State-Sponsored Collective Injustice11. Unhealed Wounds of World War I: Armenia, Kurdistan, and PalestineRashid Khalidi12. Nakba Denial: Israeli Resistance to Palestinian Refugee ReparationsMichael R. Fischbach13. Repairing Colonial Symmetry: Algerian Archive Restitution As Reparation for Crimes of Colonialism?Susan Slyomovics14. The Romani Genocide During the Holocaust: Resistance and RestitutionIan HancockPart IV. Ways Forward for Reparations15. The Roma Case for ReparationsMargareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha16. What Justice for Starvation Crimes?Alex de Waal and Bridget Conley17. Stopping the Crimes While Repairing the Victims: Personal Reflections of a Global ProsecutorLuis Moreno Ocampo with the collaboration of Joanna Frivet PostscriptMary T. BassettNotesList of ContributorsIndex

"The past lives in the present of all of us who are the survivors and descendants of extreme forms of inhumanity, and how we deal with it varies in profound ways, from those who would rather forget to those who demand both moral and material remediation as well as full acknowledgement and restorative apology for past injustices. This volume thoroughly and expertly explores all aspects of this tragic problem, from the slow and swift genocides of slavery and Nazi extermination to the sustained, multifaceted crimes of colonialism, as well as the legal, political and other lessons learned in the struggle for remedial justice. The richly informed and powerfully argued chapters fully persuade the reader of the urgency of a movement that has lately gained renewed vigor as well as moral, legal and intellectual clarity and direction. Above all, the work makes clear that the reparation movement's goals are not only those of acknowledging and rectifying past wrongs and of preventing future ones but, as the police killings of black Americans make clear, of alleviating the inherited evils of the past still active in our times." (Orlando Patterson, author of Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study) "Injustices carry consequences, and unaddressed injustices impose consequences that grow and compound, burdening individuals and societies for generations. Time for Reparations brings history, rigor, and imagination to prospects for reparative approaches to searing human rights wounds. This is the time, and here are viral roadmaps for constructive repair." (Martha Minow, author of When Should Law Forgive?)