Abstract: This handbook provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world, and includes thematic papers on topics that frequently come about in the design and implementation of reparations programs. It also reproduces key documents on reparations, including national legislation. In addition to providing factual information about a wide range of reparations programs, the book tackles issues that have not been sufficiently addressed, including the very notion of justice in reparations for the massive cases, the relationship between material compensation and other symbolic measures of reparations, and the complicated set of questions around how to provide reparations to victims of sexual violence.

Keywords: reparations programs, human rights, justice, compensation, legislation, victims