Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Genocide's aftermath / Claudia Card and Armen T. Marsoobian -- Genocide and social death / Claudia Card -- Clarifying the concept of genocide / Mohammed Abed -- Genocide and the moral agency of ethnic groups / Karen Kovach -- Moral taint / Marina A.L. Oshana -- Collective action and the peculiar evil of genocide / Bill Wringe -- On the possibilities of group injury / Stephen Winter -- The counterfactual conception of compensation / Rodney C. Roberts -- Compensation and reparation as forms of compensatory justice / Haig Khatchadourian -- A normative theory of reparations in transitional democracies / Ernesto Verdeja -- Prosecuting military leaders for war crimes / Larry May -- Rethinking the legitimacy of truth commissions : "I am the enemy you killed, my friend" / Nir Eisikovits -- Acknowledging and rectifying the genocide of American Indians : "why is it that they carry their lives on their fingernails?" / William C. Bradford -- Epilogue: Reconciliation in the aftermath of genocide / Armen T. Marsoobian.