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Summary:

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 Rights examines 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 Rights sheds light on the changing thought, practice, and goals of human rights discourse generally. Renée Jeffery is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Australian National University, author of Hugo Grotius in International Thought and Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror, editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency, and coeditor (with Hun Joon Kim) of Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1.The Politics of Amnesties
• Chapter 2. Transitions to Democracy
• Chapter 3.The Pursuit of Truth
• Chapter 4. Ending Violence
• Chapter 5. The End of Impunity?
• Chapter 6. The Persistence of Amnesties
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Jeffery, Renée , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Amnesties, accountability, and human rights [by Jeffery, R.]

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

War crimes

Amnesty

Human rights

Crimes against humanity

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

K5132 .J444 2014eb

ISBNs:

9780812245899 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

884586006

Other Control Numbers:

3627056 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3627056/huri