Transitional Justice and a State's Response to Mass Atrocity Reassessing the Obligations to Investigate and Prosecute /

• Main Author: Roberti di Sarsina, Jacopo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; War Crimes.; Criminology.; Human Rights.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; International Criminal Law .; Human Rights and Crime .

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 p...

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.