Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War

• Main Author: Lynch, Moira (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Human Rights Interventions
• Subjects: Security, International.; Peace.; Comparative politics.; Human rights.; Democracy.; International Security Studies.; Conflict Studies.; Comparative Politics.; Human Rights.

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions. What conditions prompt this outcome and what explains the variable patterns of prosec...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Rights Prosecutions and Institutional Continuity in Sri Lanka
• 3. Conversion, Layering and Human Rights Prosecutions in Northern Ireland
• 4. "Resorting to Authoritarian Habits": Anti-Terrorism Laws, State Violence and Human Rights Prosecutions in Democratic Spain
• 5. The Constitutional Court, Military Jurisdiction and Human Rights Prosecutions in Colombia
• 6. Human Rights Prosecutions and Democracies at War in Comparative Perspective.