This 2018 Online Discussion asks whether colonists owe their former colonies reparations. Larissa van den Herik, Kenneth McCallion, Robert Murtfeld, Shashi Tharoor and Jo-Anne Wemmers provide responses while engaging with questions and debates of international law on topics of colonial legacy, reparations, and justice.
Responses
Larissa van den Herik, Historical Inquiry as a Form of Colonial Reparation?
Shashi Tharoor, Saying Sorry to India: Reparations or Atonement?
Kenneth McCallion & Robert Murtfeld, Germany’s Responsibility under International Law to Compensate the Ovaherero and Nama Peoples of Namibia for the 1904-1908 Genocide