Confronting Past Human Rights Violations: Justice vs. Peace in Times of Transition

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This book examines what makes accountability for previous abuses more or less possible for transitional regimes to

achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The

options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional

justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification

to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of

accountability can be achieved by a given country.

The book examines five countries' experiences in detail - El Salvador, Honduras, Argentina, South Africa and Sri Lanka

- and offers a comparative survey of nearly 30 countries' experiences. It discusses three factors that affect the

accountability achieved: international or external influences, the balance of forces between civilians and the

military and or government and opposition forces, and the extent and nature of previous rights abuses. The book also

examines strategies of transition, trade-offs and compromises that regimes (and international actors assisting them)

may make in an attempt to achieve greater accountability or greater stability. The focus of the book is on the

politics of transition: what makes accountability more or less feasible and what strategies are deployed by regimes to

achieve greater accountability (or alternatively, greater reform). The result is a more nuanced understanding of the

different conditions and possibilities that countries face, and the lesson that there is no one-size-fits-all

prescription that can be handed to transitional regimes.

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