9781107079878 - Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity. Editor(s): Engle, Karen L.; Miller, Zinaida; Davis, Denise. Num Pages: 378 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: JPVH; LNDC; LNFX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680. . 2016. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.