The prosecution of Hissène Habré: International accountability, national impunity

Brody, Reed

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“…A state’s ratification of key international human rights instruments could lower the barriers to HRO advocacy during the peace process for at least two reasons. First, although ratification on its own does not guarantee state compliance (Hafner-Burton and Tsutsui, 2005; Hill, 2010), international legal obligations can trigger an indirect enforcement mechanism based on leaders’ fear of damage to reputation or political survival (Conrad and Ritter, 2013; Simmons, 2000). Once a government has made a formal, public commitment to respect human rights, a violation can erode a government’s credibility enough to deter its retaliation against HROs.…”

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Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions

Bell

Kitagawa

2022

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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How do human rights organizations (HROs) shape transitional justice policy in countries emerging from conflict? We investigate this question in the context of peace processes, a vital stage when many key post-conflict policies are determined. Using granular data on the content of peace agreements, we show that the robust presence of HROs significantly increases the likelihood of provisions promising criminal accountability for wartime abuses. Yet this association is conditional on prior ratification of international human rights instruments and the existence of impartial third parties in the peace process—background factors that lower barriers to effective HRO advocacy. These findings reveal a novel pathway through which HROs secure transitional justice on the national agenda after conflict.

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Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions

Bell

Kitagawa

2022

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…Reed Brody argues that there is often a tension between the drive for international accountability (which implies the requirement to remember) and the impetus for national impunity for those who committed crimes (which implies the requirement to forget). Brody gives the example of public memory in Chad, in which the notorious torture site of 'The Piscine' is still publically off limits and with no memorial to the crimes that took place there during the regime of the dictator, Hissene Habre (Brody, 2006). A significant impetus for the development of international discourse on the right to memory has arisen from the Southern Cone, and relates to the demand for public recognition and remembering of atrocities under dictatorial rule.…”

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Identity, memory and cosmopolitanism: The otherness of the past and a right to memory?

Reading

2011

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Implicated within the relationship between memory and identities at the local, national and international levels is the question of whether there is 'right to memory': the human right to have the otherness of the past acknowledged through the creation of symbolic and cultural acts, utterances and expressions. This article outlines the rationale for a right to memory and why the debate is of importance to memory and cultural studies. It outlines some of the relationships understood between memory and identity within memory studies, suggesting that a right to memory requires an understanding of the complex dynamics of memory and identities not only within, but internationally across, borders. It extends the concept of political cosmopolitanism to use as an analytical framework to enable an analysis of current international protocols, showing how they formulate the discursive relationship between identity and memory in four ways that involve a number of contradictions and unresolved tensions.

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‘On Behalf of Africa’: Towards the Regionalization of Universal Jurisdiction?

Jeßberger

2014

Africa and the International Criminal Court

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The prosecution of Hissène Habré: International accountability, national impunity

Cited by 5 publications

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Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions

Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions

Identity, memory and cosmopolitanism: The otherness of the past and a right to memory?

‘On Behalf of Africa’: Towards the Regionalization of Universal Jurisdiction?

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