What does justice consist of in the wake of its massive despoliation? South Africa, Rwanda, Chile, Northern Ireland, Germany, and many other countries have confronted this question in recent decades. What is the proper place of punishment? Amnesties? Forgiveness? Daniel Philpott proposes "political reconciliation" as an ethic that can tie together a range of restorative measures and justifications for dealing with the past.
Daniel Philpott, Ph.D., Harvard, 1996, pursues interests in international relations and political philosophy. His current research revolves around the topic of reconciliation. In particular, he is looking at transitional justice, the question of how societies address past injustices, seeking to balance truth, justice, reconciliation, and stability. He is also collaborating on a major study of global religion and politics based at Harvard University, focusing on religion's impact on the politics of peace and reconciliation. A Senior Associate at the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, he travels regularly to Kashmir, where he trains leaders in faith-based diplomacy, an activist dimension of his scholarly interests. His first book, published in 2001, is Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton University Press), a historical account of how new ideas about justice and legitimate authority fashioned the global sovereign states system. Reflecting his interests in political theory and ethics and international relations, he has also written on the morality of self-determination and on religious freedom as an end of American foreign policy.
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