Transitional Amnesty in South Africa. /

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Author / Creator:Du Bois-Pedain, Antje.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Description:1 online resource (422 p.) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8838159
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ISBN:9780511495120 (ebook)
9780521878296 (hardback)
Notes:Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2012).
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Other form:Print version: 9780521878296
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Summary:After the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa reached out to perpetrators of violence from all conflicting parties by giving amnesty to those who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes. This 2007 volume provides a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's amnesty scheme in its practical and normative dimensions. Through empirical analysis of over 1000 amnesty decisions made by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the study measures the scheme against its stated goals of truth recovery, victim empowerment and perpetrator accountability. It also explores normative questions raised by the absence of punishment. Highlighting the distinctive nature of South Africa's conditional amnesty as an exceptional 'rite of passage' into the new, post-conflict society, it argues that the amnesty scheme is best viewed as an attempt to construct a new 'justice script' for a society in transition, in which a legacy of politically motivated violence is being addressed.
Item Description:Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2012).
Physical Description:1 online resource (422 p.) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:9780511495120
9780521878296