During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address some of its unresolved i
Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of
Group apology is a way "...to remove the past as an obstacle to productive and peaceful intergroup relations," state Barkan (history and cultural studies, Claremont Graduate U.) and Karn (doctoral can