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The Function of Memory in Understanding and Addressing Cultures of Impunity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Recent psychological studies show that systemic oppression may be understood as trauma, which is aggravated in the context of a culture of impunity. Cultures of impunity, then, are a problem not only of legal justice and collective trauma but also of ...
Jereza, Veronica; University of the Philippines College of Law
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Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

What Now? Military Peace Activism in the Wake of the Vietnam War

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article defines military peace activism as peace activism related to military manpower policy and military personnel, including active, reserve, potential, and former servicemembers. It argues that when the US war in Vietnam and the draft that supported it ended, antiwar activists who worked with GIs had to reframe their work, as the ...
Amy J. Rutenberg
wiley   +1 more source

La media prescripción frente al delito de desaparición forzada de personas. ¿Incumplimiento de la normativa internacional en materia de crímenes de lesa humanidad?

open access: yesRevista Direito GV
El presente trabajo se presenta como un estudio del tratamiento de la media prescripción aplicada a los crímenes de desaparición forzada de personas. Los autores abordan la problemática desde una perspectiva jurídica e histórica.
Isabel González Ramírez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

La vorágine: Impunity, Memory and Human Rights

open access: yes, 2020
Facing state institutions that neglected the prosecution of crimes against humanity, narrative fiction in Colombia is a privileged source to acknowledge those crimes. A notable example of this connection between impunity and narrative fiction is Rivera’s
Duplat, Alfredo, Molina-Ochoa, Andrés
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Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moving from impunity to accountability: Women’s bodies, identity, and conflict-related sexual violence in Kashmir

open access: yes, 2018
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and the Rwandan genocide, international legal policy on sexual violence in conflicts saw a major shift towards stronger international accountability mechanisms.
Anjum, Alliya
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Anti-impunity and the human rights agenda /

open access: yes, 2017
In the twenty-first century, fighting impunity has become both the rallying cry and a metric of progress for human rights. The new emphasis on criminal prosecution represents a fundamental change in the positions and priorities of students and ...
Miller, Zinaida,   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Corruption and Uneven Development: Why Anti‐Corruption Fails in the EU's Most Vulnerable Regions

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges the assumption that legal harmonization within the European Union ensures effective anti‐corruption governance. Despite EU‐compliant frameworks, institutional integrity remains highly uneven across subnational territories. We introduce the Regional Integrity Framework (RIF), a diagnostic approach that integrates citizen
Ina Kubbe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS REGARDING TAX EVASION [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2018
Throughout the paper, we have highlighted some controversial aspects regarding the crime of tax evasion, referring to some important decisions of the High Court of Cassation and Justice and also of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
Mircea-Constantin SINESCU   +1 more
doaj  

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