Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative and International Perspectives
Redaktion: Lessa, Francesca

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139411806
• Artikelnr.: 52968621

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. The age of accountability: the rise of
individual criminal accountability Kathryn Sikkink; 2. The amnesty
controversy in international law Mark Freeman and Max Pensky; Part II.
Comparative Case Studies: 3. Amnesties' challenge to the global
accountability norm? Interpreting regional and international trends in
amnesty enactment Louise Mallinder; 4. From amnesty to accountability: the
ebbs and flows in the search for justice in Argentina Gabriel Pereira and
Par Engstrom; 5. Barriers to justice: the Lley de Caducidad and impunity in
Uruguay Francesca Lessa; 6. Resistance to change: Brazil's persistent
amnesty and its alternatives for truth and justice Marcelo Torelly and
Paulo Abrão; 7. De facto and de jure amnesty laws: the Central American
case Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Emily Braid; 8. Creeks of justice: debating
post-atrocity accountability in Rwanda and Uganda Phil Clark; 9.
Accountability through conditional amnesty: the case of South Africa Antje
du Bois-Pedain; 10. De facto amnesty? The example of post-Soeharto
Indonesia Patrick Burgess; 11. A limited amnesty? Insights from Cambodia
Ronald Slye; 12. The Spanish amnesty law of 1977 in comparative
perspective: from a law for democracy to a law for impunity Paloma Aguilar;
13. Amnesty in the age of accountability Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne
and Andrew G. Reiter.