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Targeting Legal Advice, Peter J. Henning
Targeting Legal Advice, Peter J. Henning
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Hélène Cixous's The Perjured City: Nonprosecution Alternatives To Collective Violence, Susan Ayres
Hélène Cixous's The Perjured City: Nonprosecution Alternatives To Collective Violence, Susan Ayres
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In instances of collective violence — apartheid in South Africa, mass killings in Rwanda, and other crimes against humanity such as slavery — what response provides justice? How can justice be achieved under such a system? Legal justice through prosecution would be unjust. This opens the possibility of nonprosecution alternatives involving forgiveness. Hélène Cixous’s play about forgiveness as an alternative to criminal prosecution, The Perjured City: Or, the Awakening of the Furies, was written in response to an actual case of failed justice in France, known as the Bad Blood Scandal. The play provides a model of forgiveness and a …