Transitional Amnesty in South Africa by du Bois-Pedain

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By du Bois-Pedain

After the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa reached out to perpetrators of violence from all conflicting events via giving amnesty to those that totally disclosed their politically influenced crimes. This 2007 quantity offers a accomplished research of South Africa's amnesty scheme in its functional and normative dimensions. via empirical research of over one thousand amnesty judgements made through the Amnesty Committee of the reality and Reconciliation fee, the learn measures the scheme opposed to its said ambitions of fact restoration, sufferer empowerment and wrongdoer responsibility. It additionally explores normative questions raised by means of the absence of punishment. Highlighting the specified nature of South Africa's conditional amnesty as a great 'rite of passage' into the recent, post-conflict society, it argues that the amnesty scheme is better seen as an try and build a brand new 'justice script' for a society in transition, within which a legacy of politically inspired violence is being addressed.

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