Amnesty in the age of human rights accountability : comparative and international perspectives

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Lessa, Francesca.

ISBN:

9781107025004

9781107617339

Personal Author:

Lessa, Francesca.

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Age of Accountability: The Global Rise of Individual Criminal Accountability / Leigh A. Payne / Francesca Lessa -- 2.The Amnesty Controversy in International Law / Kathryn Sikkink -- 3.Amnesties' Challenge to the Global Accountability Norm? Interpreting Regional and International Trends in Amnesty Enactment / Max Pensky / Mark Freeman -- 4.From Amnesty to Accountability: The Ebb and Flow in the Search for Justice in Argentina / Louise Mallinder -- 5.Barriers to Justice: The Ley de Caducidad and Impunity in Uruguay / Par Engstrom / Gabriel Pereira -- 6.Resistance to Change: Brazil's Persistent Amnesty and its Alternatives for Truth and Justice / Francesca Lessa -- 7.De Facto and De Jure Amnesty Laws: The Central American Case / Paulo Abrão / Marcelo D. Torelly -- 8.Creeks of Justice: Debating Post-Atrocity Accountability and Amnesty in Rwanda and Uganda / Naomi Roht-Arriaza / Emily Braid --

Contents note continued: 9.Accountability through Conditional Amnesty: The Case of South Africa / Phil Clark -- 10.De Facto Amnesty? The Example of Post-Soeharto Indonesia / Antje du Bois-Pedain -- 11.A Limited Amnesty? Insights from Cambodia / Patrick Burgess -- 12.The Spanish Amnesty Law of 1977 in Comparative Perspective: From a Law for Democracy to a Law for Impunity / Ronald C. Slye.

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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.