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:...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Engle, Karen 1962- (HerausgeberIn), Miller, Zinaida (HerausgeberIn), Davis, Dennis 1951- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
Schlagworte:	Criminal liability (International law) / Congresses Impunity / Congresses Menschenrecht Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit Straffreiheit Konferenzschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 389 pages)
ISBN:	9781139942263
DOI:	10.1017/9781139942263