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Confronting Past Human Rights Violations Justice vs Peace in Times of Transition The Cass Series on Peacekeeping Chandra Sriram Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Chandra Sriram
ISBN(s): 9780714655994, 0714655996
Edition: annotated edition
File Details: PDF, 1.89 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0714655996 
ISBN 13: 9780714655994
Author: Chandra Lekha Sriram

This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country.
The focus of the book is on the politics of transition: what makes accountability more or less feasible and what strategies are deployed by regimes to achieve greater accountability (or alternatively, greater reform). The result is a more nuanced understanding of the different conditions and possibilities that countries face, and the lesson that there is no one-size-fits-all prescription that can be handed to transitional regimes.

Confronting Past Human Rights Violations 1st Table of contents:

1. What Makes Accountability Possible?

  • Introduction

  • The Dilemma

  • The Existing Literature

  • Factors Affecting Accountability

  • The Players In Transitions

  • The Factors In Depth: Theoretical Discussion

  • Strategies and Trade-offs of Transition: Lessons From Military Corporatism

  • Militaries and Transitions: Hypotheses About Strategies and Trade-offs

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

2. Global Experiences In Transitional Justice

  • Introduction

  • Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Southern Europe

  • Asia

  • Notes

3. El Salvador ‘Negotiated Revolution’ and the Truth Commission

  • Introduction

  • A Brief History

  • Developments After the Peace Accords

  • Trade-offs of Transition

  • Lessons

  • Notes

4. Argentina Struggle for Accountability

  • Introduction

  • A Brief History

  • The Legacy of the Past: Alfonsín’s Policies

  • The Mixed Legacy of Human Rights In Argentina

  • Strategies of Transition In the Face of a Recalcitrant Military

  • Factors Enabling or Inhibiting Accountability

  • Absence of External Actors: Can Peacekeepers and Peacebuilders Learn From Argentina?

  • Lessons

  • Notes

5. Honduras Justice In Semi-transition

  • Introduction

  • A Brief History

  • Tentative Civilianization

  • The Tentative Beginnings of Transition: The Reina Regime

  • Trade-offs of Transition

  • Relevant Factors: Analysis

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

6. South Africa the Exchange of Truth for Justice

  • Introduction

  • A Brief History

  • Forty-plus Years of Apartheid

  • The Politics of Transition

  • The Question of Amnesty

  • The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee

  • Trade-offs of Transition

  • Factors Enabling or Hindering Accountability

  • Lessons

  • Notes

7. Sri Lanka Justice In the Midst of War

  • Introduction

  • Overview

  • History of the Conflict

  • Nascent Attempts at Reform

  • Trade-offs: The Security Forces, Reform and Accountability

  • Discussion: Key Elements of Political Change

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