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Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability

Comparative and International Perspectives

By: Francesca Lessa (Editor), Leigh A. Payne (Editor)

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Published: 28th May 2012
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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.

Theoretical Framework
The age of accountability: the rise of individual criminal accountability
The amnesty controversy in international law
Comparative Case Studies
Amnesties' challenge to the global accountability norm? Interpreting regional and international trends in amnesty enactment
From amnesty to accountability: the ebbs and flows in the search for justice in Argentina
Barriers to justice: the Lley de Caducidad and impunity in Uruguay
Resistance to change: Brazil's persistent amnesty and its alternatives for truth and justice
De facto and de jure amnesty laws: the Central American case
Creeks of justice: debating post-atrocity accountability in Rwanda and Uganda
Accountability through conditional amnesty: the case of South Africa
De facto amnesty? The example of post-Soeharto Indonesia
A limited amnesty? Insights from Cambodia
The Spanish amnesty law of 1977 in comparative perspective: from a law for democracy to a law for impunity
Amnesty in the age of accountability
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ISBN: 9781107617339
ISBN-10: 1107617332
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 456
Published: 28th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.4  x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.59