Genocidal rupture and performative repair in global civil society: Reconsidering the discourse of apology in the face of mass atrocity

The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-241

  Cushman, Thomas ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84899589807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511575730.010     Document Type: Chapter

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