Confronting Past Human Rights Violations

by Chandra Lekha Sriram

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415407583
• ISBN13: 9780415407588
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"