Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights
written by Renée Jeffery, fl. 2014, in Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), 312 page(s)
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- Abstract / 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.
- Field of Interest
- Global Issues
- Author
- Renée Jeffery, fl. 2014
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2014, by University of Pennsylvania Press
- Content Type
- Book
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- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
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- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 312
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place Published / Released
- Philadelphia, PA
- Subject
- Global Issues, Social Sciences, Transitional Justice, General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Social justice, Transitional justice, Amnesty, Politics & Policy, Law, Justicia Transicional, Justiça Transicional, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
- Series / Program
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Justicia Transicional, Justiça Transicional