{"product_id":"anti-impunity-and-the-human-rights-agenda-hardback-9781107079878","title":"Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Hardback) 9781107079878","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren Engle (Edited by), Zinaida Miller (Edited by), D. M. Davis (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107079878, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e398 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'They conclude that a laser focus on anti-impunity has created blind spots in both practice and scholarship that result in a constricted response to human rights violations, a narrowed conception of justice, and an impoverished approach to peace.' Law and Social Inquiry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. What Does Anti-Impunity Mean?: 1. A genealogy of the criminal turn in human rights Karen Engle\u003cbr\u003e 2. Anti-impunity as deflection of argument Samuel Moyn\u003cbr\u003e 3. Doing history with impunity Vasuki Nesiah\u003cbr\u003e Part II. How and Where Does Anti-Impunity Operate?: 4. The South African Truth Commission and the AZAPO case: a reflection almost two decades later D. M. Davis\u003cbr\u003e 5. Anti-impunity politics in post-genocide Rwanda Zinaida Miller\u003cbr\u003e 6. Whose exceptionalism? Debating the inter-American view on amnesty and the Brazilian case Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso\u003cbr\u003e 7. The distributive politics of impunity and anti-impunity: lessons from four decades of Colombian peace negotiations Helena Alviar García and Karen Engle\u003cbr\u003e 8. From political repression to torturer impunity: the narrowing of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala Natalie R. Davidson\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Are There Alternatives to Anti-Impunity?: 9. Impunity in a different register: people's tribunals and questions of judgment, law and responsibility Dianne Otto\u003cbr\u003e 10. Beyond Nuremberg: the historical significance of the post-Apartheid transition in South Africa Mahmood Mamdani.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Human rights \u0026amp; civil liberties law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human rights \u0026amp; civil liberties law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20rights%20\u0026amp;%20civil%20liberties%20law%20%5BLNDC%5D%22\"\u003eLNDC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265591071000,"sku":"9781107079878","price":59.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107079878i_43853ee5-63fc-45ee-a04a-45bf043622b0.jpg?v=1694545964","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anti-impunity-and-the-human-rights-agenda-hardback-9781107079878","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}