Transitional Justice And A States Response To Mass Atrocity Reassessing The Obligations To Investigate And Prosecute

Jacopo Roberti Di Sarsina

Transitional Justice And A States Response To Mass Atrocity Reassessing The Obligations To Investigate And Prosecute
This book brings a new focus to the ongoing debate on holding perpetrators of massivehumanitarian and human rights violations accountable in countries in transition.It provides a clear-cut and comprehensive legal analysis of the content and nature of astate's obligations to investigate and prosecute as enshrined in the most importanthumanitarian and human rights treaties, it disentangles the common fallacy...

Transitional Justice And A States Response To Mass Atrocity...

humanitarian and human rights violations accountable in countries in transition.

It provides a clear-cut and comprehensive legal analysis of the content and nature of a

state's obligations to investigate and prosecute as enshrined in the most important

humanitarian and human rights treaties, it disentangles the common fallacy that these

procedural obligations are naturally rooted and clearly spelled out in the general human

rights treaties, and it explains the flaws in an absolutist interpretation. This analysis

serves to understand whether such procedural obligations, if narrowly construed, act

as impediments to countries emerging from periods of conflict or systematic repression

in the face of contingent circumstances and the formidable dilemmas raised by a

univocal understanding of justice as retribution.

Exploring the latest instances of interpretation and application via an analysis of state

practice, the jurisprudence of treaty bodies, international courts and tribunals, soft

law instruments, and doctrinal contributions, the book also addresses the complex

issue of amnesty, and other transitional justice mechanisms designed to restore peace

and facilitate transition traditionally included in national reconciliation programs,

and criticizes the contention that amnesty is always prohibited by international law.

It also considers these problems from the viewpoint of the International Criminal

Court, focusing on the cases of Uganda and Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement.

Lastly, the volume offers a detailed analysis of techniques that may neutralize relevant

obligations under international law, such as denunciation, derogation, limitation, and

the public international law defenses of force majeure and necessity.

Drawing attention to the importance of a multidisciplinary and practical approach to

these unsettling questions, and endorsing a pluralistic notion of accountability, the

book will appeal to legal scholars and transitional justice experts as well as practitioners,

human rights advocates, and government officials.

Dr Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina is an International Law Expert at the Alma Mater

Studiorum - University of Bologna School of Law, and a dual-qualified lawyer (Italy and

New York). He completed a PhD in public international law, label Doctor Europaeus,

at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, holds an LLM from NYU

School of Law, and read law at the University of Bologna.

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Tema: Human rights

Transitional Justice And A States Response To Mass Atrocity Reassessing The Obligations To Investigate And Prosecute

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Editora: T.M.C. Asser Press

Idiomas: Inglês

Data de lançamento: 08/04/2019

Peso: 560,0

Colecção: Human rights

Série/Edição Limitada: 1st ed. 2019

EAN: 9789462652750

Transitional Justice And A States Response To Mass Atrocity Reassessing The Obligations To Investigate And Prosecute

Jacopo Roberti Di Sarsina

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