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Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights
2014
Overview
For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Recent developments have seen amnesties circumvented, overturned, and resisted by lawyers, states, and judiciaries committed to ending impunity for human rights violations. Yet, despite this global movement, the use of amnesties since the 1970s has not declined.
Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rightsexamines why and how amnesties persist in the face of mounting pressure to prosecute the perpetrators of human rights violations. Drawing on more than 700 amnesties instituted between 1970 and 2005, Renée Jeffery maps out significant trends in the use of amnesty and offers a historical account of how both the use and the perception of amnesty has changed. As mechanisms to facilitate transitions to democracy, to reconcile divided societies, or to end violent conflicts, amnesties have been adapted to suit the competing demands of contemporary postconflict politics and international accountability norms. Through the history of one evolving political instrument,Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rightssheds light on the changing thought, practice, and goals of human rights discourse generally.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
Amnesty -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
/ Amnesty -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
/ Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century
/ Crimes against humanity -- History -- 21st century
/ Human rights -- History -- 20th century
/ Human rights -- History -- 21st century
/ Law
/ Peace-building -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
/ Peace-building -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
/ Transitional justice -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
/ Transitional justice -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
ISBN
9780812245899, 081224589X, 9780812209419, 0812209419
