Necessary Evils

Amnesties and the Search for Justice

Mark Freeman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-89525-5 (ISBN)

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This book is about amnesties for grave international crimes that states adopt in moments of transition or social unrest. The goal of this book is to reframe and revitalise the global debate on the subject and to offer an original framework for resolving amnesty dilemmas when they arise.

This book is about amnesties for grave international crimes that states adopt in moments of transition or social unrest. The subject is naturally controversial, especially in the age of the International Criminal Court. The goal of this book is to reframe and revitalise the global debate on the subject and to offer an original framework for resolving amnesty dilemmas when they arise. Most literature and jurisprudence on amnesties deal with only a small subset of state practice and sidestep the ambiguity of amnesty's position under international law. This book addresses the ambiguity head on and argues that amnesties of the broadest scope are sometimes defensible when adopted as a last recourse in contexts of mass violence. Drawing on an extensive amnesty database, the book offers detailed guidance on how to ensure that amnesties extend the minimum leniency possible, while imposing the maximum accountability on the beneficiaries.

Mark Freeman is the Director of External Relations with the International Crisis Group. Based in Brussels, he is co-author of International Human Rights Law, the first comprehensive Canadian textbook on the subject, and author of Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness (Cambridge University Press), which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit in 2007.

Part I. The Debate on Amnesties: 1. Introduction; 2. Defining amnesty; 3. Amnesties and impunity; 4. Amnesties and international law; 5. Amnesties and the ICC; 6. The evolving UN position on amnesties; 7. Conclusions; Part II. The Design of Amnesties: 8. Introduction; 9. Last recourse threshold; 10. Overarching parameters for amnesty design; 11. Specific amnesty design choices; 12. Conclusions.

Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-521-89525-1 / 0521895251
ISBN-13	978-0-521-89525-5 / 9780521895255
Zustand	Neuware