Human Rights

Reimagining Reparations in Human Rights: The Evolving Concept of Reparations in International Human Rights Law

Edited by Otto Spijkers · Iakovos Iakovidis · Pierre Thielboerger · Elena Abrusci
New Arrival Brill Nijhoff February 2026

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ISBN-13
9789004716735
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
February 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This edited volume explores the evolution of reparations in human rights law. The book examines the complexities of collective reparations, and delves into inter-state disputes and their impact on the individual. This book also highlights innovative forms of reparation, including the exhumation and return of remains, creative symbolic reparations through art, and Indigenous music as a form of relational healing. Addressing pressing issues such as climate justice and the integration of development and reparations, this collection offers vital insights for advancing justice and reparation globally.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Mapping the Evolution of Reparations across the Transforming Human Rights Regime
Authors: Otto Spijkers, Iakovos Iakovidis, Pierre Thielbörger, and Elena Abrusci
Chapter 2 Developing International Law on Reparations for Displacement: Foundational Cases from Four Corners of the International Human Rights System
Author: Deborah Casalin
Chapter 3 Translating Principles into Practice: Collective Reparation and Harm Assessment across International Tribunals
Author: Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno
Chapter 4 Reparation in Inter-state Disputes: Preliminary Lessons from the Practice of Human Rights Courts and Bodies
Author: Giulio Bartolini
Chapter 5 Listening to What Victims Want: The Search for, Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of the Disappeared
Author: Juliette Rémond-Tiedrez
Chapter 6 Is There Room for Creative Reparations in International Criminal Law?
Author: Marina Aksenova
Pages: 125–143
Chapter 7 A Song to Nature: Traditional Wiwa Music as Relational Reparation to Indigenous Communities and Their Territory
Authors: Nina Bries Silva and Laura Triana Gallego
Chapter 8 Human Rights Violations Caused by Climate Change: Who Repairs Whom?
Author: Patricia Grazziotin Noschang
Chapter 9 Rethinking Development/Reparations Programmes and the Role of Third States in Transitional Justice
Author: Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Chapter 10 Reparations for Armed Conflict Related Atrocities in Inter-state Proceedings
The Armed Activities ( drc v Uganda) Judgment on Reparations and Its Legacy
Author: Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas
Chapter 11 Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole?
Challenges and Prospects of Inter-State Human Rights Complaints as (Overlapping) Avenues for Individual Reparations
Author: Veronica Botticelli
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