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Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda|Karen Engle

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781107079878
  • ISBN-10: 110707987X
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: December 2016
  • Dimensions: 9.39 x 6.18 x 1.01 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.49 pounds
  • Page Count: 398

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