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rhetoric meets the reality of today’s conflicts, some argue that the price of conflict resolution sometimes comes at the cost of impunity by way of blanket amnesty. Amnesties are ‘legal tools deployed by governments to prevent criminal prosecution for specific offences or against specific individuals
been argued that retributive justice processes create accountability. 6 In the context of achieving justice and accountability, in these circumstances, the use of amnesty in post-conflict societies remains controversial despite their widespread usage. 7 In these places, an amnesty is
1. Introduction Since the ‘norms entrepreneurs’ 1 and ‘advocates of international justice’ began to spread their ‘no peace without justice’ mantra during the nineties of the last century, 2 it has increasingly become an accepted principle that states should not grant amnesty to perpetrators
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156973210X510875 International Journal of Public Theology 4 (2010) 314–331 brill.nl/ijpt The Future as God’s Amnesty? * A Public Theology of Resistance for a Changing Climate Peter Manley Scott University of Manchester, UK Abstract In this
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International human rights bodies have declared amnesties for serious human rights violations incompatible with human rights law. As a result, amnesties have been revoked many years after their award. They have thus enabled criminal prosecutions for alleged crimes committed in the distant past. This has particularly been the case in the Inter-American system. Currently, a long debate on the compatibility of amnesties with human rights norms is taking place. The present contribution focuses on a topic hitherto at the fringes of this debate; namely, whether the revocation of amnesties and the initiation of proceedings against the accused, many years after the award of the amnesty, are consistent with the principle of legality. Certain domestic courts have argued that they are not, while the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has decided otherwise. This Article reflects on the reasoning of both sides. It argues that the revocation of amnesties raises valid concerns as regards the principle of legality, which should be seriously considered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It is suggested that the protection of the accused from the risk of a trial made unfair due to the passing of time and the rights of victims of access to justice require the performance of a more nuanced balancing exercise on the part of the Court.
aftermath of political atrocities in public while finding ways of justifying their unfortunate necessity. ‘Truth’ in Post-apartheid Transition The struggle for ‘truth’ about the ‘conflicts of the past’ has been central to the post-apartheid transition. The issue of amnesty has been at the heart of