Amnesty in the age of human rights accountability : comparative and international perspectives /
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 '...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- The age of accountability : the global rise of individual criminal accountability / Kathryn Sikkink
- The amnesty controversy in international law / Mark Freeman and Max Pensky
- Amnesties' challenge to the global accountability norm? : interpreting regional and international trends in amnesty enactment / Louise Mallinder
- From amnesty to accountability : the ebb and flow in the search for justice in Argentina / Pat Engstrom and Gabriel Pereira
- Barriers to justice : the Ley de Caducidad and impunity in Uruguay / Francesca Lessa
- Resistance to change : Brazil's persistent amnesty and its alternatives for truth and justice / Paulo Abrão and Marcelo D. Torelly
- De facto and De jure amnesty laws : the Central American case / Emily Braid and Naomi Roht-Arriaza
- Creeks of justice : debating post-atrocity accountability and amnesty in Rwanda and Uganda / Phil Clark
- Accountability through conditional amnesty : the case of South Africa / Antje du Bois-Pedain
- De facto amnesty? The example of post-Soeharto Indonesia / Patrick Burgess
- A limited amnesty? Insights from Cambodia / Ronald C. Slye
- The Spanish Amnesty Law of 1977 in comparative perspective : from a law for democracy to a law for impunity / Paloma Aguilar
- Conclusion : Amnesty in the age of accountability / Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, and Andrew G. Reiter.
