1. Robert R. Weyeneth, ‘The Power of Apology and the Process of Historical Reconciliation’, The Public Historian 23, no. 3 (2001): 20.
2. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 246.
3. Luc Bovens articulates this regulative ideal as a ‘genuine apology’, while Nick Smith outlines what he calls ‘the Categorical Apology’: Nick Smith, I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
4. Alison Dundes Renteln, ‘Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Analysis’, in The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, ed. Mark Gibney et al. (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 61–76.
5. Mihaela Mihai, ‘When the State Says “Sorry”: State Apologies as Exemplary Political Judgments’, Journal of Political Philosophy 21, no. 2 (2013): 209.