Author: R. Ross
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996076083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
Beyond Impunity
Author: R. Ross
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996076083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996076083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
Beyond Impunity
Author: Geneviève Jacques
Publisher: World Council of Churches
ISBN: 9782825413210
Category : Christianity and justice
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study is part of an ongoing ecumenical debate on the complex legal, political and human problems surrounding the issue of impunity and efforts to establish and defend the rule of law in countries emerging from decades of oppressive rule. It explores the essential links between truth and memory, and justice and reconcilliation. The author demonstrates that the strongest driving force in the struggle against impunity is the need of victims to expose their experience and by doing so recover a shared memory and thus restore human dignity to themselves and make the perpretators accountable. Building on the work of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in South Africa and her experiences in Guatemala, the author introduces and elaborates on the concept of 'restorative justice' which seeks to recreate right relations through responsibility, accountability and the will to live together. This book renews discussion on the potential role of the Church as an agent of reconciliation to help build a culture of peace leading effectively beyond impunity.
Publisher: World Council of Churches
ISBN: 9782825413210
Category : Christianity and justice
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study is part of an ongoing ecumenical debate on the complex legal, political and human problems surrounding the issue of impunity and efforts to establish and defend the rule of law in countries emerging from decades of oppressive rule. It explores the essential links between truth and memory, and justice and reconcilliation. The author demonstrates that the strongest driving force in the struggle against impunity is the need of victims to expose their experience and by doing so recover a shared memory and thus restore human dignity to themselves and make the perpretators accountable. Building on the work of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in South Africa and her experiences in Guatemala, the author introduces and elaborates on the concept of 'restorative justice' which seeks to recreate right relations through responsibility, accountability and the will to live together. This book renews discussion on the potential role of the Church as an agent of reconciliation to help build a culture of peace leading effectively beyond impunity.
Beyond Impunity
In Plain Sight
Author: Tyrell Haberkorn
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299314405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Following a 1932 coup d’état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Tyrell Haberkorn’s deeply researched revisionist history of modern Thailand highlights the legal, political, and social mechanisms that have produced such impunity and documents continual and courageous challenges to state domination.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299314405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Following a 1932 coup d’état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Tyrell Haberkorn’s deeply researched revisionist history of modern Thailand highlights the legal, political, and social mechanisms that have produced such impunity and documents continual and courageous challenges to state domination.
Between Impunity and Imperialism
Author: Kevin E. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190070803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book uses a series of high-profile cases to illustrate the key elements of transnational bribery law. It analyzes the law through the lenses of two competing theoretical approaches: the OECD paradigm and the anti-imperialist critique. It ultimately defends an alternative distinctively inclusive and experimentalist approach to transnational bribery law.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190070803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book uses a series of high-profile cases to illustrate the key elements of transnational bribery law. It analyzes the law through the lenses of two competing theoretical approaches: the OECD paradigm and the anti-imperialist critique. It ultimately defends an alternative distinctively inclusive and experimentalist approach to transnational bribery law.
ASSIMILATION OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN THE FIGHTS AGAINST IMPUNITY
Author: Adv. Charvi Duggal
Publisher: Kavya Publications
ISBN: 9391722105
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Publisher: Kavya Publications
ISBN: 9391722105
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Do Not Disturb
Author: Michela Wrong
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610398432
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister. Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610398432
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister. Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination.
The Fight Against Impunity in EU Law
Author: Luisa Marin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509926895
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The fight against impunity is an increasingly central concept in EU law-making and adjudication. What is the meaning and the scope of impunity as a legal concept in the EU legal order? How does the fight against impunity influence policy and adjudication? This timely first piece of comprehensive research aims to to address these largely unexplored questions, which involve structural institutional and substantive dilemmas underpinning the most recent developments of the European integration process. In recent years, the fight against impunity has become a pressing concern for the European institutions. It has shaped several EU policies and has led to a recurring argument in the case law of the Court of Justice. The book sheds light on this elusive notion, providing a much needed conceptual appraisal. The first section examines the scope of the notion of impunity, and its role in the EU decision-making process and in the development of EU competences. Subsequent sections discuss the implications of impunity - and of the fight against it - in a variety of complementary domains, namely the allocation of criminal jurisdiction, mutual recognition instruments, the rise of new surveillance technologies and the external dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. This book is an original and timely contribution to scholarship, which is of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers alike.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509926895
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The fight against impunity is an increasingly central concept in EU law-making and adjudication. What is the meaning and the scope of impunity as a legal concept in the EU legal order? How does the fight against impunity influence policy and adjudication? This timely first piece of comprehensive research aims to to address these largely unexplored questions, which involve structural institutional and substantive dilemmas underpinning the most recent developments of the European integration process. In recent years, the fight against impunity has become a pressing concern for the European institutions. It has shaped several EU policies and has led to a recurring argument in the case law of the Court of Justice. The book sheds light on this elusive notion, providing a much needed conceptual appraisal. The first section examines the scope of the notion of impunity, and its role in the EU decision-making process and in the development of EU competences. Subsequent sections discuss the implications of impunity - and of the fight against it - in a variety of complementary domains, namely the allocation of criminal jurisdiction, mutual recognition instruments, the rise of new surveillance technologies and the external dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. This book is an original and timely contribution to scholarship, which is of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers alike.
Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda
Author: Karen Engle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110707987X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110707987X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.
The United Nations Convention Against Corruption
Author: Cecily Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192528300
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The United Nations Convention against Corruption includes 71 articles, and takes a notably comprehensive approach to the problem of corruption, as it addresses prevention, criminalization, international cooperation, and asset recovery. Since it came into force more than a decade ago, the Convention has attracted nearly universal participation by states. As a global and comprehensive convention, which establishes new rules in several areas of anti-corruption law and helps shape domestic laws and policies around the world, this treaty calls for scholarly study. This volume helps to fill a gap in existing academic literature by providing an invaluable reference work on the Convention. It provides systematic coverage of the treaty, with each chapter discussing the relevant travaux préparatoires, the text of the final article, comparisons with other anti-corruption treaties, and available information about domestic implementing legislation and enforcement. This commentary is designed to serve as a reference work for academics, lawyers, and policy-makers working in the anti-corruption field, and in the fields of transnational criminal law and domestic criminal law. Contributors include anti-corruption experts, scholars, and legal practitioners from around the globe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192528300
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The United Nations Convention against Corruption includes 71 articles, and takes a notably comprehensive approach to the problem of corruption, as it addresses prevention, criminalization, international cooperation, and asset recovery. Since it came into force more than a decade ago, the Convention has attracted nearly universal participation by states. As a global and comprehensive convention, which establishes new rules in several areas of anti-corruption law and helps shape domestic laws and policies around the world, this treaty calls for scholarly study. This volume helps to fill a gap in existing academic literature by providing an invaluable reference work on the Convention. It provides systematic coverage of the treaty, with each chapter discussing the relevant travaux préparatoires, the text of the final article, comparisons with other anti-corruption treaties, and available information about domestic implementing legislation and enforcement. This commentary is designed to serve as a reference work for academics, lawyers, and policy-makers working in the anti-corruption field, and in the fields of transnational criminal law and domestic criminal law. Contributors include anti-corruption experts, scholars, and legal practitioners from around the globe.