Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights / / Renée Jeffery.

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. Rece...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 7 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments