00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009878 20221104021020 0010-0520009878 221104################|##########|#eng## 978-1-107-07987-8 eng 345 345 ANT a Anti-Impunity and Human Rights Agenda Anti-Impunity and Human Rights Agenda / Edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, and D.M. Davis Cambridge : Cambriedge University Press, 2016 x, 389 p. ; 24 cm In the twenty-first century, fighting impunity has become both the rallying cry and a metric of progress for human rights. The new emphasis on criminal prosecution represents a fundamental change in the positions and priorities of students and practitioners of human rights and transitional justice: it has become almost unquestionable common sense that criminal punishment is a legal, political, and pragmatic imperative for addressing human rights violations. This book challenges that common sense. It does so by documenting and critically analyzing the trend toward an anti-impunity norm in a variety of institutional and geographical contexts, with an eye toward the interaction between practices at the global and local levels. Together, the chapters demonstrate how this laser focus on anti-impunity has created blind spots in practice and in scholarship that result in a constricted response to human rights violations, a narrowed conception of justice, and an impoverished approach to peace. International law Political Science Human Rights Edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, and D.M. Davis 26479/MKRI-P/XII-2018 26479/MKRI-P/XII-2018