Review of Kathryn Sikkink's The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics
In: Journal of human rights, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 283-288
ISSN: 1475-4843
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In: Journal of human rights, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 283-288
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: Journal of human rights, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 283-288
ISSN: 1475-4835
In: International affairs, Band 88, Heft 3, S. 628-629
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Journal of human rights, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 427-431
ISSN: 1475-4835
In: Journal of human rights, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 427-431
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 191-211
ISSN: 0892-6794
World Affairs Online
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 191-211
ISSN: 1747-7093
In recent years the efforts to hold the perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable have become increasingly normalized, and building capacity in this area has become central to the strategies of numerous advocacy groups, international organizations, and governments engaged in rebuilding and reconstructing states. The indictment of sitting heads of state and rebel leaders engaged in ongoing conflicts, however, has been more exceptional than normal, but is nonetheless radically altering how we think about, debate, and practice justice. While a principled commitment continues to underpin advocacy for justice, several court documents and high-profile reports by leading advocacy organizations stress the capacity of international justice to deliver peace, the rule of law, and stability to transitional states. Such an approach presents a stark contrast to rationales for prosecution that claim that there is a moral obligation or a legal duty to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead, recent arguments have emphasized the instrumental purposes of justice, essentially recasting justice as a tool of peacebuilding and encouraging proponents and critics alike to evaluate justice on the basis of its effects. Rationales that stress the results that international justice can help deliver have raised the expectations of proponents and skeptics alike and also encouraged further empirical study of the effects of justice. While these studies may not produce a consensus, they offer the prospect that justice strategies can be adapted based on careful research to be more effective. A focus on pragmatism does not mean abandoning the principled commitment to international justice, but it may mean deferring justice until conflict is resolved.
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 191-212
ISSN: 0892-6794
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 135-152
ISSN: 1468-2699
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 135-152
ISSN: 0039-6338
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 115, Heft 2, S. 303-305
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: LSE public policy review, Band 2, Heft 3
ISSN: 2633-4046
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1545-1577
The tension between law and politics places transitional justice under cross-pressures. The impetus to hold perpetrators legally accountable for atrocities and major rights violations has emerged in part from the expectation that subjecting political behavior to the apolitical judgment of law will exert a civilizing effect. As demands for accountability have risen, politics has played a central role at every step. The past decade has seen a flourishing of research in empirical political science on the relationship between law and politics in postconflict and postauthoritarian justice. This research has tried to explain the turn to individual legal accountability and the development of norms and institutions for accountability. Research has stressed the role of politics in shaping the implementation of trials and other modes of accountability. It has also examined the consequences of these modes of accountability. We address research on each of these topics.
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1545-1577
The tension between law and politics places transitional justice under cross-pressures. The impetus to hold Perpetrators legally accountable for atrocities and major rights violations has emerged in part from the expectation that subjecting political behavior to the apolitical judgment of law will exert a civilizing effect. As demands for accountability have risen, politics has played a central role at every step. The past decade has seen a flourishing of research in empirical political science on the relationship between law and politics in postconflict and postauthoritarian justice. This research has tried to explain the turn to individual legal accountability and the development of norms and institutions for accountability. Research has stressed the role of politics in shaping the implementation of trials and other modes of accountability. It has also examined the consequences of these modes of accountability. We address research on each of these topics. Adapted from the source document.
In: Annual review of political science, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 303-327
ISSN: 1094-2939