Jennifer Lind

Dartmouth College

Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or reparations.

Dr. Lind is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics(Cornell University Press, 2008).

Poster link: http://www.brynmawr.edu/aschcenter/asch908/activities/lind032309.pdf