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Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War

✍ Scribed by Moira Lynch

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
238
Series
Human Rights Interventions
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions. What conditions prompt this outcome and what explains the variable patterns of prosecutions in democracies at war? Prosecutions may be enabled by existing democratic norms and institutions, but given their role in a violent conflict, democratic governments may go to great lengths to avoid judicial accountability. Through qualitative and quantitative research of four cases, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, Spain and Colombia, this book argues that emergency and anti-terrorism laws issued during the conflict created barriers to the investigation and prosecution of state human rights violations. The extent to which state actors were held accountable was shaped by citizens, NGOs and political actors who challenged or upheld impunity provisions within emergency legislation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Moira Lynch)....Pages 1-34
Human Rights Prosecutions and Institutional Continuity in Sri Lanka (Moira Lynch)....Pages 35-71
Conversion, Layering, and Human Rights Prosecutions in Northern Ireland (Moira Lynch)....Pages 73-119
β€œResorting to Authoritarian Habits”: Anti-terrorism Laws, State Violence, and Human Rights Prosecutions in Democratic Spain (Moira Lynch)....Pages 121-165
The Constitutional Court, Military Jurisdiction, and Human Rights Prosecutions in Colombia (Moira Lynch)....Pages 167-206
Human Rights Prosecutions and Democracies at War in Comparative Perspective (Moira Lynch)....Pages 207-218
Back Matter ....Pages 219-226

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; International Security Studies; Conflict Studies; Comparative Politics; Human Rights; Democracy

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