Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after

Why this matters here

Martha Minow’s Between Vengeance and Forgiveness examines how societies after genocide and mass violence choose among trials, truth processes, reparations, and related responses—and how none fully settles the demands of justice, memory, and living on. After Certainty draws on that difficulty when arguing that hero and villain stories compress participation, systems, and incentives into a single address for blame. Minow maps institutional responses to atrocity; the book extends the compression problem into everyday moral narration that lets ordinary involvement disappear.