| ISBN | 9781139942263 (ebook) |
| | 9781107079878 (hardback) |
| | 9781107439221 (paperback) |
| Call Number | Electronic Book |
| Title | Anti-impunity and the human rights agenda / edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, D. M. Davis. |
| Imprint | Anti-impunity & the human rights agenda. |
| | [s.l.] : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| Physical | 398 p. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Content | A genealogy of the criminal turn in human rights / Karen Engle -- Anti-impunity as deflection of argument / Samuel Moyn -- Doing history with impunity / Vasuki Nesiah -- The Suth African Truth Commission and the AZAPO case : a reflection almost two decades later / D.M. Davis -- Anti-impunity politics in post-genocide Rwanda / Zinaida Miller -- Whose exceptionalism? Debating the inter-American view on amnesty and the Brazilian case / Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso -- The distributive politics of impunity and anti-impunity : lessons from four decades of Colombian peace negotiations / Helena Alviar García and Karen Engle -- From political repression to torturer impunity : the narrowing of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala / Natalie R. Davidson -- Impunity in a different register : people's tribunals and questions of judgment, law and responsibility / Dianne Otto -- Beyond Nuremberg : the historical significance of the post-apartheid transition in South Africa / Mahmood Mamdani. |
| Summary | In the twenty-first century, fighting impunity has become both the rallying cry and a metric of progress for human rights. The new emphasis on criminal prosecution represents a fundamental change in the positions and priorities of students and practitioners of human rights and transitional justice: it has become almost unquestionable common sense that criminal punishment is a legal, political, and pragmatic imperative for addressing human rights violations. This book challenges that common sense. It does so by documenting and critically analyzing the trend toward an anti-impunity norm in a variety of institutional and geographical contexts, with an eye toward the interaction between practices at the global and local levels. Together, the chapters demonstrate how this laser focus on anti-impunity has created blind spots in practice and in scholarship that result in a constricted response to human rights violations, a narrowed conception of justice, and an impoverished approach to peace. |
| Subject | Criminal liability (International law) -- Congresses. |
| | Impunity -- Congresses. |
| | Electronic books. (319) |
| Added Entry | Engle, Karen. |
| | Miller, Zinaida. |
| | Davis, D. M. |
| URL Object | Ebook |
| Group | E-Book |
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