Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability - Comparative and International Perspectives (Hardcover, New)

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 edited book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. Authors use social movement, ideational, legal, path dependent, qualitative case study, statistical, and cross-national approaches in their chapters. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations, some well-known and others with little scholarly or advocacy exposure: 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Editors:	Francesca Lessa • Leigh A. Payne
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	456
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02500-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Comparative law Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General
LSN:	1-107-02500-1
Barcode:	9781107025004

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