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Amnesty Debates

Amnesty Debates is an academic construct within post-conflict reconciliation scholarship that refers to systematic scholarly discourse examining the ethical, legal, and political tensions surrounding the granting of legal immunity to perpetrators of human rights violations in exchange for truth-telling or peace.

63

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3.1K

Citations

69

Authors

36

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

6

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Publications

63

Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)

Mahmood Mamdani · diacritics · 2002 · 283 citations

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On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993

H. A. Bedau, Stephen Shute, Susan Hurely · Human Rights Quarterly · 1994 · 277 citations

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Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa

James L. Gibson · American Journal of Political Science · 2002 · 197 citations

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On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1993

Francis Fukuyama, Stephen Shute, Susan Hurley · Foreign Affairs · 1994 · 195 citations

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Justice and reconciliation: after the violence

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 164 citations

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Authors

69

  1. SS
    Stephen Shute

    Corpus Christi College

    2 publications · 472 citations

    2

    h-index

  2. BS
    Beth S. Lyons

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. CK
    Caroline Kennedy

    University of North Carolina at Asheville, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. HJ
    Henry J. Steiner

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    1 publications · 28 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. SA
    Sergio Aguayo Quezada

    Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de Sciences Po, France

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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Institutions

36

  1. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

  2. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    86 citations

  3. University of the Western Cape

    Cape Town, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  4. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  5. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  6. St. Jerome's University

    Waterloo, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  8. St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 7 publications · 624 citations

    7

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  2. Latin American Perspectives

    LAP · 2 publications · 28 citations

    2

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  3. International Journal of Transitional Justice

    2 publications · 50 citations

    2

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  4. Social & Legal Studies

    2 publications · 69 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. Journal of African studies

    1 publications · 24 citations

    1

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