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Elazar Barkan
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
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Biography
Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public
Affairs at Columbia University, is the Co-Director of the Human
Rights Concentration at SIPA, and is founding Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at the Salzburg Seminar. Professor
Barkan specializes on the role of history in
contemporary society and politics, with particular emphasis on the
response to gross historical crimes and injustices, and human rights.
His recent books include The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and
Negotiating Historical Injustices (2000); Claiming the Stones/Naming
the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic
Identity, (an edited volume with Ronald Bush, Getty, 2003); Taking
Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with
Alexander Karn, Stanford University Press, 2006).
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