Anti-impunity and the human rights agenda / edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, D.M. Davis. - x, 389 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A genealogy of the criminal turn in human rights / Karen Engle -- Anti-impunity as deflection of argument / Samuel Moyn -- Doing history with impunity / Vasuki Nesiah -- The Suth African Truth Commission and the AZAPO case : a reflection almost two decades later / D.M. Davis -- Anti-impunity politics in post-genocide Rwanda / Zinaida Miller -- Whose exceptionalism? Debating the inter-American view on amnesty and the Brazilian case / Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso -- The distributive politics of impunity and anti-impunity : lessons from four decades of Colombian peace negotiations / Helena Alviar García and Karen Engle -- From political repression to torturer impunity : the narrowing of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala / Natalie R. Davidson -- Impunity in a different register : people's tribunals and questions of judgment, law and responsibility / Dianne Otto -- Beyond Nuremberg : the historical significance of the post-apartheid transition in South Africa / Mahmood Mamdani.

9781107079878 (hardback) 9781107439221 (paperback)


Criminal liability (International law)--Congresses.
Impunity--Congresses.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.

KZ 7075 / A58 2016