Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
Comparative and International Perspectives
Francesca Lessa editor Leigh A Payne editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th May '12
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This edited volume discusses the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability.
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.
"[This] book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of transnational justice and to the menu of policy choice after gross violations of human rights." -- D.P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, Reviewing for Choice Magazine
ISBN: 9781107025004
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 22mm
Weight: 730g
456 pages