ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the way in which states, the UN and other international organizations have responded to past injustices. It plots the way in which the Indian Khilafat movement helped shape the modern conception of the caliph that ISIS uses to such deadly effect. The book focuses on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and considers the situations in Spain, and in Australia and New Zealand. The book ends with a reflection on the Cypriot neighborhood of Varosha which, emptied of its Greek Cypriot population in 1974, stands as a memorial to the Cyprus conflict. By listening to the way in which former residents and their descendants talk about their memories of the past we are faced with the incommensurability of loss, the fickleness of memory and the limitations of human rights.
