Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Engle, Karen

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108166737
• Artikelnr.: 47510601

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. What Does Anti-Impunity Mean?: 1. A genealogy of the
criminal turn in human rights Karen Engle; 2. Anti-impunity as deflection
of argument Samuel Moyn; 3. Doing history with impunity Vasuki Nesiah; Part
II. How and Where Does Anti-Impunity Operate?: 4. The South African Truth
Commission and the AZAPO case: a reflection almost two decades later D. M.
Davis; 5. Anti-impunity politics in post-genocide Rwanda Zinaida Miller; 6.
Whose exceptionalism? Debating the inter-American view on amnesty and the
Brazilian case Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso; 7. The distributive
politics of impunity and anti-impunity: lessons from four decades of
Colombian peace negotiations Helena Alviar García and Karen Engle; 8. From
political repression to torturer impunity: the narrowing of Filártiga v.
Peña-Irala Natalie R. Davidson; Part III. Are There Alternatives to
Anti-Impunity?: 9. Impunity in a different register: people's tribunals and
questions of judgment, law and responsibility Dianne Otto; 10. Beyond
Nuremberg: the historical significance of the post-Apartheid transition in
South Africa Mahmood Mamdani.