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Anti-impunity and the human rights agenda / edited by Karen Engle, University of Texas School of Law, Zinaida Miller, Seton Hall University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, D. M. Davis, High Court of Cape Town Faculty of Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal liability (International law)--Congresses.
- Criminal liability (International law).
- Impunity--Congresses.
- Impunity.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139942263
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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