The activists opposing border regimes in Berlin still vividly remember the migrant protest
camp on Oranienplatz (O‐Platz), a square in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg, a decade after …

In 2015 the German government acknowledged that the Empire committed genocide in its
colony South West Africa, known since its independence as Namibia. This …

Academic Abstract The present article discusses victimization, perpetration, and denial in
mass atrocities, using four recent case studies from Southeast Asia. The four cases include …

Over the past decades, an increasing number of countries have apologized for human rights
violations in the recent or distant past. Although this has led to considerable debate about …

After human rights violations, states frequently employ the discourse of “closure” or “drawing
a line under the past” as an exculpatory device that situates the wrongdoing in an …

I argue that the field of transitional justice is a useful lens to explore the politics surrounding
apology and restitution between former colonizers and the formerly colonized. While existing …

In recent years, the successful anti-migrant mobilization of populist radical right parties and
movements in Germany has stimulated the anti-racist struggle. This article investigates the …

Countries around the world increasingly try to redress past human rights violations by
offering apologies. The debates surrounding many of these political apologies suggest they …

In the aftermath of armed conflicts, genocide and other forms of systemic injustice, states–
and increasingly international courts–must repair a large number of survivors of grave …

The Eurocentrism colouring much mainstream scholarship is shunned by TWAIL, which has
centred on international legal scholarship regarding the views of people historically …