Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide

Abstract

860 Book Reviews / International Criminal Law Review 9 (2009) 855–873 Louise Mallinder, Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide , Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2008, ISBN-10: 1841137715; ISBN-13: 978-1841137711, 586 pp. In Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions, Louise Mallinder under- takes an empirical analysis of the use of amnesties as a means of addressing the aftermath of modern confl icts. She begins by charting how the collapse of colo- nisation, giving rise to the violent birth of new states, produced an upsurge in the use of amnesties in the second half of the twentieth