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This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the
Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the
present. In late 1998, the Solomon Islands were plunged into a
period of violent civil conflict precipitated by a complex web of
grievances, injustices, ethnic tensions, and economic insecurities.
This conflict dragged on until the middle of 2003, leaving an
estimated 200 people dead and more than 20 000 displaced from their
homes. In the time that has elapsed since the end of The Tensions,
numerous-at times incompatible-approaches to transitional justice
have been implemented in the Solomon Islands. The contributors to
this volume examine how key global trends and debates about
transitional justice were played out in the Solomon Islands, how
its key mechanisms were adapted to meet the specific demands of
post-conflict justice in this local context, and how well its
practices and processes fulfilled their perceived functions.
This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the
Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the
present. In late 1998, the Solomon Islands were plunged into a
period of violent civil conflict precipitated by a complex web of
grievances, injustices, ethnic tensions, and economic insecurities.
This conflict dragged on until the middle of 2003, leaving an
estimated 200 people dead and more than 20 000 displaced from their
homes. In the time that has elapsed since the end of The Tensions,
numerous-at times incompatible-approaches to transitional justice
have been implemented in the Solomon Islands. The contributors to
this volume examine how key global trends and debates about
transitional justice were played out in the Solomon Islands, how
its key mechanisms were adapted to meet the specific demands of
post-conflict justice in this local context, and how well its
practices and processes fulfilled their perceived functions.
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, Renee 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.
In the past two decades, peace negotiators around the world have
increasingly accepted that granting amnesties for human rights
violations is no longer an acceptable bargaining tool or incentive,
even when the signing of a peace agreement is at stake. While many
states that previously saw sweeping amnesties as integral to their
peace processes now avoid amnesties for human rights violations,
this anti-amnesty turn has been conspicuously absent in Asia. In
Negotiating Peace: Amnesties, Justice and Human Rights Renee
Jeffery examines why peace negotiators in Asia have resisted global
anti-impunity measures more fervently and successfully than their
counterparts around the world. Drawing on a new global dataset of
146 peace agreements (1980-2015) and with in-depth analysis of four
key cases - Timor-Leste, Aceh Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines
- Jeffery uncovers the legal, political, economic and cultural
reasons for the persistent popularity of amnesties in Asian peace
processes.
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) was the daughter of the Elector
Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the
daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. A princess
born into one of the most prominent Protestant dynasties of the
age, Elisabeth was one of the great female intellectuals of
seventeenth-century Europe. This book examines her life and
thought. It is the story of an exiled princess, a grief-stricken
woman whose family was beset by tragedy and whose life was marked
by poverty, depression, and chronic illness. It is also the story
of how that same woman's strength of character, unswerving faith,
and extraordinary mind saw her emerge as one of the most renowned
scholars of the age. It is the story of how one woman navigated the
tumultuous waters of seventeenth-century politics, religion, and
scholarship, fought for her family's ancestral rights, and helped
established one of the first networks of female scholars in Western
Europe. Drawing on her correspondence with Rene Descartes, as well
as the letters, diaries, and writings of her family, friends, and
intellectual associates, this book contributes to the recovery of
Elisabeth's place in the history of philosophy. It demonstrates
that although she is routinely marginalized in contemporary
accounts of seventeenth-century thought, overshadowed by the more
famous male philosophers she corresponded with, or dismissed as
little more than a "learned maiden," Elisabeth was a philosopher in
her own right who made a significant contribution to modern
understandings of the relationship between the body and the mind,
challenged dominant accounts of the nature of the emotions, and
provided insightful commentaries on subjects as varied as the
nature and causes of illness to the essence of virtue and
Machiavelli's The Prince.
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) was the daughter of the Elector
Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the
daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. A princess
born into one of the most prominent Protestant dynasties of the
age, Elisabeth was one of the great female intellectuals of
seventeenth-century Europe. This book examines her life and
thought. It is the story of an exiled princess, a grief-stricken
woman whose family was beset by tragedy and whose life was marked
by poverty, depression, and chronic illness. It is also the story
of how that same woman's strength of character, unswerving faith,
and extraordinary mind saw her emerge as one of the most renowned
scholars of the age. It is the story of how one woman navigated the
tumultuous waters of seventeenth-century politics, religion, and
scholarship, fought for her family's ancestral rights, and helped
established one of the first networks of female scholars in Western
Europe. Drawing on her correspondence with Rene Descartes, as well
as the letters, diaries, and writings of her family, friends, and
intellectual associates, this book contributes to the recovery of
Elisabeth's place in the history of philosophy. It demonstrates
that although she is routinely marginalized in contemporary
accounts of seventeenth-century thought, overshadowed by the more
famous male philosophers she corresponded with, or dismissed as
little more than a "learned maiden," Elisabeth was a philosopher in
her own right who made a significant contribution to modern
understandings of the relationship between the body and the mind,
challenged dominant accounts of the nature of the emotions, and
provided insightful commentaries on subjects as varied as the
nature and causes of illness to the essence of virtue and
Machiavelli's The Prince.
The study of international ethics is marked by an overwhelming bias
towards reasoned reflection at the expense of emotionally driven
moral deliberation. For rationalist cosmopolitans in particular,
reason alone provides the means by which we can arrive at the truly
impartial moral judgments a cosmopolitan ethic demands. However,
are the emotions as irrational, selfish and partial as most
rationalist cosmopolitans would have us believe? By re-examining
the central claims of the eighteenth-century moral sentiment
theorists in light of cutting-edge discoveries in the fields of
neuroscience and psychology, Renee Jeffery argues that the
dominance of rationalism and marginalisation of emotions from
theories of global ethics cannot be justified. In its place she
develops a sentimentalist cosmopolitan ethic that does not simply
provide a framework for identifying injustices and prescribing how
we ought to respond to them, but which actually motivates action in
response to international injustices such as global poverty.
How to address the human rights violations of previous regimes and
past periods of conflict is one of the most pressing questions
facing governments and policy makers today. New democracies and
states in the fragile post-conflict peace-settlement phase are
confronted by the need to make crucial decisions about whether to
hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable for their
actions and, if so, how to best achieve that end. This is the first
book to examine the ways in which states and societies in the
Asia-Pacific region have navigated these difficult waters. Drawing
together several of the world's leading experts on transitional
justice with Asia-Pacific regional and country specialists it
provides an overview of the processes and practices of transitional
justice in the region as well as detailed analysis of the cases of
Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Indonesia, South Korea, the Solomon
Islands and East Timor.
The study of international ethics is marked by an overwhelming bias
towards reasoned reflection at the expense of emotionally driven
moral deliberation. For rationalist cosmopolitans in particular,
reason alone provides the means by which we can arrive at the truly
impartial moral judgments a cosmopolitan ethic demands. However,
are the emotions as irrational, selfish and partial as most
rationalist cosmopolitans would have us believe? By re-examining
the central claims of the eighteenth-century moral sentiment
theorists in light of cutting-edge discoveries in the fields of
neuroscience and psychology, Renee Jeffery argues that the
dominance of rationalism and marginalisation of emotions from
theories of global ethics cannot be justified. In its place she
develops a sentimentalist cosmopolitan ethic that does not simply
provide a framework for identifying injustices and prescribing how
we ought to respond to them, but which actually motivates action in
response to international injustices such as global poverty."
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