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Amnesty After Atrocity?

Author : Helena Cobban
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317263707
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Amnesty After Atrocity? written by Helena Cobban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling read." Richard J. Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda "A very important contribution." Princeton N. Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations "A powerful reminder that dealing with the legacy of wartime atrocities is not simply a matter of bringing perpetrators to justice. It also means overcoming the divisions within the society and healing the victims." Marina Ottaway, Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace In Amnesty after Atrocity? veteran journalist Helena Cobban examines the effectiveness of different ways of dealing with the aftermath of genocide and violence committed during intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda, Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the various ways those nations tried to come to grips with their violent past: from war crimes trials to truth commissions to outright amnesties for perpetrators. She discovered that in terms of both moving forward and satisfying the needs of survivors, war crimes trials are not the most effective path. This book provides historical context and includes interviews with a cross-section of people: community leaders, victims, policymakers, teachers, rights activists, and even some former abusers. These first-person accounts create a rich, readable text, and Cobban's overall conclusions will surprise many readers in the West.

Necessary Evils

Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895251
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Evils written by Mark Freeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain America, the famous Marvel comic hero, is thawed out of the ice during WWII in order to combat Hitler's super agent, Rod Skull.

Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability

Author : Francesca Lessa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110738009X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability written by Francesca Lessa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.

Amnesty After Atrocity?

Author : Helena Cobban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315635996
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Amnesty After Atrocity? written by Helena Cobban and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transitional Justice and a State’s Response to Mass Atrocity

Author : Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462652767
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice and a State’s Response to Mass Atrocity written by Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a new focus to the ongoing debate on holding perpetrators of massive humanitarian and human rights violations accountable in countries in transition. It provides a clear-cut and comprehensive legal analysis of the content and nature of a state's obligations to investigate and prosecute as enshrined in the most important humanitarian and human rights treaties; it disentangles the common fallacy that these procedural obligations are naturally rooted and clearly spelled out in the general human rights treaties; and it explains the flaws in an absolutist interpretation. This analysis serves to understand whether such procedural obligations, if narrowly construed, act as impediments to countries emerging from periods of conflict or systematic repression in the face of contingent circumstances and the formidable dilemmas raised by a univocal understanding of justice as retribution. Exploring the latest instances of interpretation and application via an analysis of state practice, the jurisprudence of treaty bodies, international courts and tribunals, soft law instruments, and doctrinal contributions, the book also addresses the complex issue of amnesty, and other transitional justice mechanisms designed to restore peace and facilitate transition traditionally included in national reconciliation programs, and criticizes the contention that amnesty is always prohibited by international law. It also considers these problems from the viewpoint of the International Criminal Court, focusing on the cases of Uganda and Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement. Lastly, the volume offers a detailed analysis of techniques that may neutralize relevant obligations under international law, such as denunciation, derogation, limitation, and the public international law defenses of force majeure and necessity. Drawing attention to the importance of a multidisciplinary and practical approach to these unsettling questions, and endorsing a pluralistic notion of accountability, the book will appeal to legal scholars and transitional justice experts as well as practitioners, human rights advocates, and government officials. Dr Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina is an International Law Expert at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna School of Law, and a dual-qualified lawyer (Italy and New York). He completed a PhD in public international law, label Doctor Europaeus, at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, holds an LLM from NYU School of Law, and read law at the University of Bologna.

Making Sense of Mass Atrocity

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139480650
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Mass Atrocity written by Mark Osiel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet criminal law, with its liberal underpinnings, prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts. Is such law, therefore, constitutionally unable to make any sense of the most catastrophic conflagrations of our time? Drawing on the experience of several prosecutions, this book both trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits at such times and offers a spirited defence of its moral and intellectual resources for meeting the vexing challenge of holding anyone criminally accountable for mass atrocity. Just as war criminals develop new methods of eluding law's historic grasp, so criminal law flexibly devises novel responses to their stratagems. Mark Osiel examines several such legal innovations in international jurisprudence and proposes still others.

Picturing Atrocity

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Atrocity written by Geoffrey Batchen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers.

Hijacked Justice

Author : Jelena Subotić
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458102
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Hijacked Justice written by Jelena Subotić and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She finds that international efforts to establish accountability for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been used to pursue very different local political goals.Responding to international pressures, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have implemented various mechanisms of "transitional justice"—the systematic addressing of past crimes after conflicts end. Transitional justice in the three countries, however, was guided by ulterior political motives: to get rid of domestic political opponents, to obtain international financial aid, or to gain admission to the European Union. Subotic argues that when transitional justice becomes "hijacked" for such local political strategies, it fosters domestic backlash, deepens political instability, and even creates alternative, politicized versions of history. That war crimes trials (such as those in The Hague) and truth commissions (as in South Africa) are necessary and desirable has become a staple belief among those concerned with reconstructing societies after conflict. States are now expected to deal with their violent legacies in an institutional setting rather than through blanket amnesty or victor's justice. This new expectation, however, has produced paradoxical results. In order to avoid the pitfalls of hijacked justice, Subotic argues, the international community should focus on broader and deeper social transformation of postconflict societies, instead on emphasizing only arrests of war crimes suspects.

Digging for the Disappeared

Author : Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080479488X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Digging for the Disappeared written by Adam Rosenblatt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

Author : Martha Minow
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080704508X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness written by Martha Minow and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing.

Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896047167
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Justice

Author : Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087121
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Global Justice written by Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a controversial war in which he was ousted and captured by United States forces, Saddam Hussein was arraigned before a war crimes tribunal. Slobodan Milosevic died midway through his contentious trial by an international war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Calls for intervention and war crimes trials for the massacres and rapes in Sudan's Darfur region have been loud and clear, and the United States remains fiercely opposed to the permanent International Criminal Court. Are war crimes trials impartial, apolitical forums? Has international justice for war crimes become an entrenched aspect of globalization? In Global Justice, Moghalu examines the phenomenon of war crimes trials from an unusual, political perspective—that of an anarchical international society. After a controversial war in which he was ousted and captured by United States forces, Saddam Hussein was arraigned before a war crimes tribunal. Slobodan Milosevic died midway through his contentious trial by an international war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Calls for intervention and war crimes trials for the massacres and rapes in Sudan's Darfur region have been loud and clear, and the United States remains fiercely opposed to the permanent International Criminal Court. Are war crimes trials impartial, apolitical forums? Has international justice for war crimes become an entrenched aspect of globalization? In Global Justice, Moghalu examines the phenomenon of war crimes trials from an unusual, political perspective—that of an anarchical international society. He argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, war crimes trials are neither motivated nor influenced solely by abstract notions of justice. Instead, war crimes trials are the product of the interplay of political forces that have led to an inevitable clash between globalization and sovereignty on the sensitive question of who should judge war criminals. From Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm to the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, from the trials of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, and Charles Taylor to Belgium's attempts to enforce the contested doctrine of universal jurisdiction, Moghalu renders a compelling tour de force of one of the most controversial subjects in world politics. He argues that, necessary though it was, international justice has run into a crisis of legitimacy. While international trials will remain a policy option, local or regional responses to mass atrocities will prove more durable.

The Making Of Modern Lebanon

Author : Helena Cobban
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000303179
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Making Of Modern Lebanon written by Helena Cobban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a vivid and readable account of Lebanon's development since its first emergence in 1585, unravelling the intricacies of the sectarian/religious groups and the special kinds of communities which have sunk 900-year-old roots in the remote fastnesses of the Mount Lebanon interior.

That the World May Know

Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030273
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book That the World May Know written by James Dawes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.

Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide

Author : Howard Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide written by Howard Ball and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining history, politics, and critical analysis, he revisits the killing fields of Cambodia, documents the three-month Hutu "machete genocide" of about 800,000 Tutsi villagers in Rwanda, and casts recent headlines from Kosovo in the light of these other conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation

Author : Helena Cobban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521272162
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Palestinian Liberation Organisation written by Helena Cobban and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive political analysis of the PLO.

Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda

Author : Karen Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110707987X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda written by Karen Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.