Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity towards Accountability

Synopsis

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ‘thick’, but structured, narratives – which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed – the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.

Copyright:

2016

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ISBN-13:

9781317526209

Related ISBNs:

9781315722856, 9781138853249, 9781138853249, 9780815392927, 9780815392927

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/23/19

Copyrighted By:

Elin Skaar, Jemima Garcia-Godos, Cath Collins

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

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