The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions : Insights from European, Latin American, and African Post-Conflict Societies /

Human rights prosecutions are the most prominent mechanisms that victims demand to obtain accountability. Dealing with a legacy of gross human rights violations presents opportunities to enhance the right to justice and promote a more equal application of criminal law, a fundamental condition for a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
International Criminal Court.
War crime trials.
War crimes.
Human rights.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue / Aleida Assmann
  • Introduction : do human rights trials make a difference after conflict, dictatorship and state-sponsored violence? / Rosario Figari Layús and Ulrike Capdepón
  • Human rights trials without human rights law : prosecuting Nazi crimes in postwar Germany after Nuremberg / Annette Weinke
  • Courts as a site to tell the "truth" : the case of former prison commander Alexandru Vişinescu / Kristine Avram
  • Seeking justice for the crimes of the Franco dictatorship : the politics of victimhood in the "Argentine legal complaint" / Ulrike Capdepón
  • The struggle of victims for human rights trials in post-dictatorship Chile / Boris Hau
  • The state against the state : the impact of governmental contradictions on human rights trials and victims in Argentina / Rosario Figari Layús
  • Operation Condor trials abroad : the innovation and domestic constraints of transnational prosecution / Debbie Sharnak
  • Tensions between criminal trials and the sense of justice in post-conflict Peru / Iris Jave
  • The International Criminal Court's "Africa problem" and suppression of the "justice cascade" / Geoffrey Lugano
  • Conditions and cultural consequences of international criminal justice intervention : the case of Darfur / Joachim J. Savelsberg
  • The effects of seeking justice on behalf of the victim : a critical analysis of criminal trials in the Kenyan post-election violence transitional justice process / Valeria Vegh Weis
  • Concluding reflections : towards the end of impunity? the scope and impact of human rights trials / Rosario Figari Layús and Ulrike Capdepón.

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