Transitional amnesty in South Africa
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Transitional amnesty in South Africa
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-371) and index
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Description
After the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa reached out to perpetrators of violence from all conflicting parties by giving amnesty to those who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes. This 2007 volume provides a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's amnesty scheme in its practical and normative dimensions. Through empirical analysis of over 1000 amnesty decisions made by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the study measures the scheme against its stated goals of truth recovery, victim empowerment and perpetrator accountability. It also explores normative questions raised by the absence of punishment. Highlighting the distinctive nature of South Africa's conditional amnesty as an exceptional 'rite of passage' into the new, post-conflict society, it argues that the amnesty scheme is best viewed as an attempt to construct a new 'justice script' for a society in transition, in which a legacy of politically motivated violence is being addressed.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The TRC-based amnesty scheme: background and overview
- 2. The practice of the committee when making decisions
- 3. The committee's interpretation of the political offence requirement
- 4. The concept of full disclosure
- 5. Truth recovery in the amnesty process
- 6. Victim empowerment in the amnesty process
- 7. Perpetrator accountability in the amnesty process
- 8. Conditional amnesty and international law
- 9. Conclusion.
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