Negotiating peace : amnesties, justice and human rights / Renée Jeffery, Griffith University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffery, Renée, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific settlement of international disputes.

Human rights--Asia.

Human rights.

Amnesty--Asia.

Amnesty.

Arbitration (International law).

Dispute resolution (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In the past two decades, peace negotiators around the world have increasingly accepted that granting amnesties for human rights violations is no longer an acceptable bargaining tool or incentive, even when the signing of a peace agreement is at stake. While many states that previously saw sweeping amnesties as integral to their peace processes now avoid amnesties for human rights violations, this anti-amnesty turn has been conspicuously absent in Asia. In Negotiating Peace: Amnesties, Justice and Human Rights Renée Jeffery examines why peace negotiators in Asia have resisted global anti-impunity measures more fervently and successfully than their counterparts around the world. Drawing on a new global dataset of 146 peace agreements (1980-2015) and with in-depth analysis of four key cases - Timor-Leste, Aceh Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines - Jeffery uncovers the legal, political, economic and cultural reasons for the persistent popularity of amnesties in Asian peace processes.

Contents:

Amnesties and peace agreements : the Asia-Pacific in global comparative perspective, 1980-2015

Amnesties and human rights in Asia

Timor-Leste and Indonesia : judicial incapacity and the politics of reconciliation

Aceh, Indonesia : separatism, peace, and the role of the international community

Nepal : from tacit acceptance to noncompliance

The Philippines : managing a culture of impunity in the Bangsamoro peace process.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-95208-9

1-108-95228-3

1-108-93718-7

OCLC:

1198086254