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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJeffery, Renée
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAmnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights /
_cRenée Jeffery.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.) :
_b7 illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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490 0 _aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction --
_tCHAPTER 1. The Politics of Amnesties --
_tCHAPTER 2. Transitions to Democracy --
_tCHAPTER 3. The Pursuit of Truth --
_tCHAPTER 4. Ending Violence --
_tCHAPTER 5. The End of Impunity? --
_tCHAPTER 6. The Persistence of Amnesties --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFor 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 4 _aHuman Rights.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
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653 _aHuman Rights.
653 _aLaw.
653 _aPolitical Science.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209419
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999 _c198811
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