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  title info:
    title: Transitional Justice and a State's Response to Mass Atrocity
    sub title: Reassessing the Obligations to Investigate and Prosecute
  name:
    name part: Roberti di Sarsina, Jacopo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLII, 248 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book brings a new focus to the ongoing debate on holding perpetrators of massive 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…
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Content of the Obligations to Investigate and Prosecute International Humanitarian Law Violations - The 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols -- Chapter 3. The Content of the Obligations to Investigate and Prosecute International Human Rights Law Violations -- Chapter 4. International Law and Transitional Justice: The Difficulties of Abiding by the Obligations to Investigate and Prosecute in Countries Facing a Transition -- Chapter 5. State's International Responsibility for Failing to Investigate and Prosecute Mass Atrocities: Are there Techniques within International Law to Solve the Dilemmas Raised by Transitions? -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.
  note: by Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina.
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: International humanitarian law
  subject:
    topic: International criminal law
  subject:
    topic: War Crimes
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Human Rights
  subject:
    topic: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict
  subject:
    topic: International Criminal Law
  subject:
    topic: War Crimes
  subject:
    topic: Human Rights and Crime
  classification: K3236-3268.5
  classification: 341.48
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789462652767
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-276-7
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    record creation date: 190326
    record change date: 20191027141326.0
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