Kieran Mcevoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kieran Mcevoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kieran |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcevoy |
| SIGNATURE | MCEVOY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1437-3388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Acknowledging the past in the post‐truth era: Witch‐hunts, lawfare and the veterans’ amnesty in Northern Ireland
Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of the witch‐hunt narrative to rationalise its introduction. Next, it explores the related claim that address…
"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia
Using Cambodia as a case study, this article examines cause lawyering in a repressive political environment. It focuses on "closeted" cause lawyering, a practice that we define as the intentional pursuit of change through the legal process that is concealed for strategic purposes. Situated within the wider scholarship on (cause) lawyering in general and authoritarian Southeast Asia and China in particular, the article draws upon interviews conduc…
Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland
∞ This article offers a critical assessment of efforts to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. We begin with an overview of government-led initiatives since 1998 and then reflect on three underpinning themes: justice, accountability and the tilt towards impunity; the shift from ‘truth’ to ‘information’ recovery; and the instrumentalization of history. We then offer a reflexive assessment of our endeavours to contribute to a ‘from …
Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite
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Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism
This article examines the role of cause lawyers in conflicted or authoritarian contexts where the chances of legal victory are often minimal. Drawing upon the literature on resistance, performance, memory studies, legal consciousness and the sociology of lawyers, the paper examines how cause lawyers challenge and subvert power. The paper first explores the tactics and strategies of cause lawyers who boycott legal proceedings and the relationship …
Perceptions of the Communities
Crime, Community and Locale: The Northern Ireland Communities Crime Survey
This title was first published in 2000: This text reports on the findings of the Communities Crime Survey, a communities-based survey carried out within Northern Ireland. The survey asked a number of questions beyond the usual remit of local crime surveys, in order to explore more fully a whole range of issues relating to the experience of living in a society where more obvious manifestations of conflict are beginning to recede and other more mun…
Cause Lawyers, Political Violence, and Professionalism in Conflict
This article examines how cause lawyers in conflicted and authoritarian societies balance their professional responsibilities as lawyers with their commitment to a political cause. It is drawn from extensive interviews with both lawyers and political activists in a range of societies. It focuses on the challenges for lawyers in managing relations with violent politically‐motivated clients and their movements. Using the notion of ‘legitimation wor…
Travel, Dilemmas and Nonrecurrence: Observations on the ‘Respectabilisation’ of Transitional Justice
Justice, truth and oral history: Legislating the past ‘from below’ in Northern Ireland
Drawing on the ‘from below’ perspective which has emerged in transitional justice scholarship and practice over the past two decades, this article critically examines the dealing with the past debate in Northern Ireland. The paper begins by offering an outline of the from below perspective in the context of post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies which are struggling to come to terms with past violence and human rights abuses. Having provid…
Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition
This article examines the particular experiences of female ‘cause lawyers’ in conflicted and transitional societies. Drawn from an ongoing comparative project which involved fieldwork in Cambodia, Chile, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia and South Africa, the paper looks at opportunities, obstacles and the obduracy required from such lawyers to ‘make a difference’ in these challenging contexts. Drawing upon the theoretical literature on the sociology of…
Judges, Conflict, and the Past
Drawing upon interviews with senior judicial figures in Northern Ireland, South Africa and elsewhere, this article considers the role of the judiciary in a political conflict. Using the socio-legal literature on judicial performance and audience as well as transitional justice scholarship, the article argues that judges in Northern Ireland 'performed' to a number of 'imagined' audiences including Parliament, 'the public', and their judicial peers…
Victims and Transitional Justice: Voice, Agency and Blame
This article explores the construction of victimhood in transitional societies. Drawn from fieldwork in a dozen jurisdictions as well as elements of criminological, feminist, sociological, philosophical and postcolonial literature, the article focuses in particular on how victimhood is interpreted and acted upon in transitional contexts. It explores the ways in which victims’ voice and agency are realised, impeded or in some cases co-opted in tra…
The Northern Ireland Peace Process and “Terroristic” Narratives: A Reply to Edwards and McGrattan
Victimology in transitional justice: Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy
Although addressing the needs of victims is increasingly proffered as the key rationale for transitional justice, serious critical discussion on the political and social construction of victimhood is only tentatively emerging in the field. Drawing from Anglo-American victimology, the first part of this paper suggests that victims of crime as a category are often perceived as the mirror opposite of perpetrators of crime. It suggests that such a pe…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
Amnesties in Transition: Punishment, Restoration, and the Governance of Mercy
Despite the much vaunted triumph of human rights, amnesties continue to be a frequently used technique of post‐conflict transitional justice. For many critics, they are synonymous with unaccountability and injustice. This article argues that despite the rhetoric, there is no universal duty to prosecute under international law and that issues of selectivity and proportionality present serious challenges to the retributive rationale for punishment …
Rethinking amnesties: Atrocity, accountability and impunity in post-conflict societies
The notion of accountability that is propagated in transitional justice often appears limited to demands for the prosecution and imprisonment of those who have been involved in serious human rights violations. Amnesties, widely understood as the absence of punishment for wrongdoing, are in turn considered by many scholars and activists as an example par excellence of the kind of Faustian pacts which are made in the name of political expediency in…
What Did the Lawyers Do During the ‘War’? Neutrality, Conflict and the Culture of Quietism
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this paper explores how lawyers responded to the challenges of entrenched discrimination, sustained political violence and an emerging peace process. Drawing upon the literature of the sociology of lawyering, it examines whether lawyers can or should be more than ‘paid technicians’ in such circumstances. It focuses in particular upon a number of ‘critical junctures’ in the legal history of the jurisdiction …
Art, Angst and Dealing With the Past in Northern Ireland
Re-imagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation
Drawing upon criminological studies in the field of prisoner rehabilitation, this essay explores the relevance of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) framework to the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. In a similar fashion to the critique of `passivity' offered by, for example, the `strengths based' or `good lives' approach to prisoner resettlement and reintegration more generally, the authors contend that…
Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland
Foreword by Kieran McEvoy Introduction 1. Restorative justice: an introduction 2. Restorative justice in transition and the case for criminology 3. Paramilitaries and vigilantes: punitive populism as social control 4. The beginning of CRJI and Alternatives: legitimizing restorative justice in a punitive community 5. The practice of community restorative justice in Northern Ireland 6. Volunteers and practitioners: leadership in a culture of violen…
Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice
The field of transitional justice is increasingly characterized by the dominance of legalism to the detriment of both scholarship and practice. The first part of the paper examines what is meant by legalism and its consequences in the field through a number of overlapping themes: 'legalism as seduction', the 'triumph' of human rights, and the tendency towards 'seeing like a state'. The second part considers a number of correctives to such leaning…
Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice
The field of transitional justice is increasingly characterized by the dominance of legalism to the detriment of both scholarship and practice. The first part of the paper examines what is meant by legalism and its consequences in the field through a number of overlapping themes: 'legalism as seduction', the 'triumph' of human rights, and the tendency towards 'seeing like a state'. The second part considers a number of correctives to such leaning…
Victims and Transitional Justice: Voice, Agency and Blame
This article explores the construction of victimhood in transitional societies. Drawn from fieldwork in a dozen jurisdictions as well as elements of criminological, feminist, sociological, philosophical and postcolonial literature, the article focuses in particular on how victimhood is interpreted and acted upon in transitional contexts. It explores the ways in which victims’ voice and agency are realised, impeded or in some cases co-opted in tra…
Re-imagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation
Drawing upon criminological studies in the field of prisoner rehabilitation, this essay explores the relevance of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) framework to the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. In a similar fashion to the critique of `passivity' offered by, for example, the `strengths based' or `good lives' approach to prisoner resettlement and reintegration more generally, the authors contend that…
State Crime by Proxy and Juridical Othering
This paper explores the range of strategies employed by states to obfuscate their responsibility in state crime through ‘othering’ both perpetrators and victims. It draws upon a range of frameworks of international humanitarian law, human rights, transitional justice as well as criminological theory to explore the historical and contemporary techniques of obfuscation. The first part of the article focuses upon the ways in which state agency is ei…
Resistance, Transition and Exclusion: Politically Motivated Ex-Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
The landscape of political imprisonment in Northern Ireland was changed due to the general release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners as part of the Belfast Agreement. This article reflects upon the post-prison experiences of former prisoners and their families, and in particular how the move from a resistant to a transitional framework has facilitated a greater openness and willingness amongs ex-prisoners to acknowledge the per…
Law, Struggle, and Political Transformation in Northern Ireland
This article analyses the role of law as an element of the Republican Movement's violent and political struggle during the Northern Ireland conflict. The trials and legal hearings of paramilitary defendants, the use of judicial reviews in the prisons, and the use of law in the political arena are chosen as three interconnected sites which highlight the complex interaction between law and other forms of struggle. The author argues that these three…
Punishment, policing and praxis: Restorative justice and non‐violent alternatives to paramilitary punishments in Northern Ireland
During the most recent three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland, the limitations of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) policing of local working class communities has seen the parallel evolution of violent paramilitary systems of ‘punishment attacks’ and banishments. This paper explores the factors which underpin such punishments. It considers their relationship to the formal justice system and offers a critical analysis of the potential …
Beyond the Metaphor: Political Violence, Human Rights and `New' Peacemaking Criminology
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article explores the relationship between human rights and criminological discourses concerning paramilitary abuses. The article begins with a critical introduction to peacemaking criminology. It then explores four overlapping styles of interventions designed to mitigate paramilitary violence. These include, attempts to hold paramilitaries accountable through humanitarian law; the use of human rights a…
Amnesties in Transition: Punishment, Restoration, and the Governance of Mercy
Despite the much vaunted triumph of human rights, amnesties continue to be a frequently used technique of post‐conflict transitional justice. For many critics, they are synonymous with unaccountability and injustice. This article argues that despite the rhetoric, there is no universal duty to prosecute under international law and that issues of selectivity and proportionality present serious challenges to the retributive rationale for punishment …
Criminal Justice in a Divided Society: Northern Ireland Prisons
Many societies are divided on political, ethnic, religious, national, or linguistic lines; criminal justice systems require strategies to manage the consequences of the resulting conflict and political violence. The prison system in Northern Ireland provides a case study of three contrasting methods of managing divided and politically motivated prisoners. "Reactive containment" is a military-style response of suppression combined with negotiation…
Restorative Justice and the Critique of Informalism in Northern Ireland
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Prisoner Release and Conflict Resolution: International Lessons for Northern Ireland
This article is drawn from a major piece of international comparative research on the release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners in South Africa, Israel and Palestine, Italy, Spain, the Irish Republic, and Northern Ireland. The research was designed to inform the ongoing debate in Northern Ireland regarding the release of prisoners in light of the IRA and Loyalist cease-fires of 1994 and the renewal of the IRA cease-fire in 1997…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
What Did the Lawyers Do During the ‘War’? Neutrality, Conflict and the Culture of Quietism
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this paper explores how lawyers responded to the challenges of entrenched discrimination, sustained political violence and an emerging peace process. Drawing upon the literature of the sociology of lawyering, it examines whether lawyers can or should be more than ‘paid technicians’ in such circumstances. It focuses in particular upon a number of ‘critical junctures’ in the legal history of the jurisdiction …
Travel, Dilemmas and Nonrecurrence: Observations on the ‘Respectabilisation’ of Transitional Justice
Judges, Conflict, and the Past
Drawing upon interviews with senior judicial figures in Northern Ireland, South Africa and elsewhere, this article considers the role of the judiciary in a political conflict. Using the socio-legal literature on judicial performance and audience as well as transitional justice scholarship, the article argues that judges in Northern Ireland 'performed' to a number of 'imagined' audiences including Parliament, 'the public', and their judicial peers…
Rethinking amnesties: Atrocity, accountability and impunity in post-conflict societies
The notion of accountability that is propagated in transitional justice often appears limited to demands for the prosecution and imprisonment of those who have been involved in serious human rights violations. Amnesties, widely understood as the absence of punishment for wrongdoing, are in turn considered by many scholars and activists as an example par excellence of the kind of Faustian pacts which are made in the name of political expediency in…
The home front. The families of politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland
This article is based upon a survey of partners of politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland. It examines issues related to the visiting experience, the maintenance of contact through letters, home leave and release, and the provision of support from extended family, civil society and professional agencies. The authors argue that while the political ideology of prisoners and families is important, it does not insulate them from the prac…
Cause Lawyers, Political Violence, and Professionalism in Conflict
This article examines how cause lawyers in conflicted and authoritarian societies balance their professional responsibilities as lawyers with their commitment to a political cause. It is drawn from extensive interviews with both lawyers and political activists in a range of societies. It focuses on the challenges for lawyers in managing relations with violent politically‐motivated clients and their movements. Using the notion of ‘legitimation wor…
Introduction: Practice, Performance and Prospects for Restorative Justice
Journal Article Introduction: Practice, Performance and Prospects for Restorative Justice Get access Kieran McEvoy, Kieran McEvoy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Harry Mika, Harry Mika Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara Hudson Barbara Hudson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, I…
Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism
This article examines the role of cause lawyers in conflicted or authoritarian contexts where the chances of legal victory are often minimal. Drawing upon the literature on resistance, performance, memory studies, legal consciousness and the sociology of lawyers, the paper examines how cause lawyers challenge and subvert power. The paper first explores the tactics and strategies of cause lawyers who boycott legal proceedings and the relationship …
Justice, truth and oral history: Legislating the past ‘from below’ in Northern Ireland
Drawing on the ‘from below’ perspective which has emerged in transitional justice scholarship and practice over the past two decades, this article critically examines the dealing with the past debate in Northern Ireland. The paper begins by offering an outline of the from below perspective in the context of post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies which are struggling to come to terms with past violence and human rights abuses. Having provid…
Seeing’ is believing: Positivist terrology, peacemaking criminology, and the northern ireland peace process
Criminal Justice in a Divided Society: Northern Ireland Prisons
Many societies are divided on political, ethnic, religious, national, or linguistic lines; criminal justice systems require strategies to manage the consequences of the resulting conflict and political violence. The prison system in Northern Ireland provides a case study of three contrasting methods of managing divided and politically motivated prisoners. "Reactive containment" is a military-style response of suppression combined with negotiation…
Seeing’ is believing: Positivist terrology, peacemaking criminology, and the northern ireland peace process
Prisoner Release and Conflict Resolution: International Lessons for Northern Ireland
This article is drawn from a major piece of international comparative research on the release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners in South Africa, Israel and Palestine, Italy, Spain, the Irish Republic, and Northern Ireland. The research was designed to inform the ongoing debate in Northern Ireland regarding the release of prisoners in light of the IRA and Loyalist cease-fires of 1994 and the renewal of the IRA cease-fire in 1997…
The home front. The families of politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland
This article is based upon a survey of partners of politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland. It examines issues related to the visiting experience, the maintenance of contact through letters, home leave and release, and the provision of support from extended family, civil society and professional agencies. The authors argue that while the political ideology of prisoners and families is important, it does not insulate them from the prac…
Lives Less Ordinary? Crime, Communities and Policing in Northern Ireland
This article is drawn from data collected in the Community Crime Survey conducted in Northern Ireland in 1996. 1 That survey was premised on the notion that the experience of crime, victimisation, policing and related matters varied considerably across different communities in Northern Ireland. These communities were distinguished on the grounds of religious segregation/integration, socio-economic deprivation and Greater Belfast/rural divides. Th…
Law, Struggle, and Political Transformation in Northern Ireland
This article analyses the role of law as an element of the Republican Movement's violent and political struggle during the Northern Ireland conflict. The trials and legal hearings of paramilitary defendants, the use of judicial reviews in the prisons, and the use of law in the political arena are chosen as three interconnected sites which highlight the complex interaction between law and other forms of struggle. The author argues that these three…
Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern IrelandResistance, Management, and Release: Resistance, Management, and Release (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
Based upon interviews with former prisoners and staff, Kieran McEvoy's study relates their experiences to the broader literature on imprisonment of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
Punishment, policing and praxis: Restorative justice and non‐violent alternatives to paramilitary punishments in Northern Ireland
During the most recent three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland, the limitations of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) policing of local working class communities has seen the parallel evolution of violent paramilitary systems of ‘punishment attacks’ and banishments. This paper explores the factors which underpin such punishments. It considers their relationship to the formal justice system and offers a critical analysis of the potential …
Negative Experiences on Ecstasy: The Role of Drug, Set, and Setting
Similar to other sociological studies of Ecstasy use, the authors' research suggests that Ecstasy users tend to report positive effects of the drug. However, we also observed that most users experienced at least one adverse psychological outcome while using Ecstasy. The present study examines those negative experiences within the context of drug, set and setting. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 98 current or former users of E…
Restorative Justice and the Critique of Informalism in Northern Ireland
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Introduction: Practice, Performance and Prospects for Restorative Justice
Journal Article Introduction: Practice, Performance and Prospects for Restorative Justice Get access Kieran McEvoy, Kieran McEvoy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Harry Mika, Harry Mika Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara Hudson Barbara Hudson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, I…
Beyond the Metaphor: Political Violence, Human Rights and `New' Peacemaking Criminology
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article explores the relationship between human rights and criminological discourses concerning paramilitary abuses. The article begins with a critical introduction to peacemaking criminology. It then explores four overlapping styles of interventions designed to mitigate paramilitary violence. These include, attempts to hold paramilitaries accountable through humanitarian law; the use of human rights a…
Resistance, Transition and Exclusion: Politically Motivated Ex-Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
The landscape of political imprisonment in Northern Ireland was changed due to the general release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners as part of the Belfast Agreement. This article reflects upon the post-prison experiences of former prisoners and their families, and in particular how the move from a resistant to a transitional framework has facilitated a greater openness and willingness amongs ex-prisoners to acknowledge the per…
State Crime by Proxy and Juridical Othering
This paper explores the range of strategies employed by states to obfuscate their responsibility in state crime through ‘othering’ both perpetrators and victims. It draws upon a range of frameworks of international humanitarian law, human rights, transitional justice as well as criminological theory to explore the historical and contemporary techniques of obfuscation. The first part of the article focuses upon the ways in which state agency is ei…
Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice
The field of transitional justice is increasingly characterized by the dominance of legalism to the detriment of both scholarship and practice. The first part of the paper examines what is meant by legalism and its consequences in the field through a number of overlapping themes: 'legalism as seduction', the 'triumph' of human rights, and the tendency towards 'seeing like a state'. The second part considers a number of correctives to such leaning…
Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Art, Angst and Dealing With the Past in Northern Ireland
Re-imagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation
Drawing upon criminological studies in the field of prisoner rehabilitation, this essay explores the relevance of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) framework to the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. In a similar fashion to the critique of `passivity' offered by, for example, the `strengths based' or `good lives' approach to prisoner resettlement and reintegration more generally, the authors contend that…
Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland
Foreword by Kieran McEvoy Introduction 1. Restorative justice: an introduction 2. Restorative justice in transition and the case for criminology 3. Paramilitaries and vigilantes: punitive populism as social control 4. The beginning of CRJI and Alternatives: legitimizing restorative justice in a punitive community 5. The practice of community restorative justice in Northern Ireland 6. Volunteers and practitioners: leadership in a culture of violen…
Rethinking amnesties: Atrocity, accountability and impunity in post-conflict societies
The notion of accountability that is propagated in transitional justice often appears limited to demands for the prosecution and imprisonment of those who have been involved in serious human rights violations. Amnesties, widely understood as the absence of punishment for wrongdoing, are in turn considered by many scholars and activists as an example par excellence of the kind of Faustian pacts which are made in the name of political expediency in…
What Did the Lawyers Do During the ‘War’? Neutrality, Conflict and the Culture of Quietism
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this paper explores how lawyers responded to the challenges of entrenched discrimination, sustained political violence and an emerging peace process. Drawing upon the literature of the sociology of lawyering, it examines whether lawyers can or should be more than ‘paid technicians’ in such circumstances. It focuses in particular upon a number of ‘critical junctures’ in the legal history of the jurisdiction …
Victimology in transitional justice: Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy
Although addressing the needs of victims is increasingly proffered as the key rationale for transitional justice, serious critical discussion on the political and social construction of victimhood is only tentatively emerging in the field. Drawing from Anglo-American victimology, the first part of this paper suggests that victims of crime as a category are often perceived as the mirror opposite of perpetrators of crime. It suggests that such a pe…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
Amnesties in Transition: Punishment, Restoration, and the Governance of Mercy
Despite the much vaunted triumph of human rights, amnesties continue to be a frequently used technique of post‐conflict transitional justice. For many critics, they are synonymous with unaccountability and injustice. This article argues that despite the rhetoric, there is no universal duty to prosecute under international law and that issues of selectivity and proportionality present serious challenges to the retributive rationale for punishment …
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