Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability

Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. The age of accountability: the rise of individual criminal accountability Kathryn Sikkink; 2. The amnesty controversy in international law Mark Freeman and Max Pensky; Part II. Comparative Case Studies: 3. Amnesties' challenge to the global accountability norm? Interpreting regional and international trends in amnesty enactment Louise Mallinder; 4. From amnesty to accountability: the ebbs and flows in the search for justice in Argentina Gabriel Pereira and Par Engstrom; 5. Barriers to justice: the Lley de Caducidad and impunity in Uruguay Francesca Lessa; 6. Resistance to change: Brazil's persistent amnesty and its alternatives for truth and justice Marcelo Torelly and Paulo Abrão; 7. De facto and de jure amnesty laws: the Central American case Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Emily Braid; 8. Creeks of justice: debating post-atrocity accountability in Rwanda and Uganda Phil Clark; 9. Accountability through conditional amnesty: the case of South Africa Antje du Bois-Pedain; 10. De facto amnesty? The example of post-Soeharto Indonesia Patrick Burgess; 11. A limited amnesty? Insights from Cambodia Ronald Slye; 12. The Spanish amnesty law of 1977 in comparative perspective: from a law for democracy to a law for impunity Paloma Aguilar; 13. Amnesty in the age of accountability Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter.