The Resource Amnesties, accountability, and human rights, Renée Jeffery
Amnesties, accountability, and human rights, Renée Jeffery
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017)
- Contents
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- 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
- Label
- Amnesties, accountability, and human rights
- Title
- Amnesties, accountability, and human rights
- Statement of responsibility
- Renée Jeffery
- Language
- eng
- 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
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- VaAlASP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jeffery, Renée
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- War crimes
- Amnesty
- Human rights
- Crimes against humanity
- Label
- Amnesties, accountability, and human rights, Renée Jeffery
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index
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- online resource
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- 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
- Control code
- ASP3627056/huri
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Form of item
- online
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- remote
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- (Sirsi) ASP3627056/hur
- (OCoLC)884586006
- Label
- Amnesties, accountability, and human rights, Renée Jeffery
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ASP3627056/huri
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
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- computer
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) ASP3627056/hur
- (OCoLC)884586006
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