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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Efforts to work against the practice of impunity for major international crimes and violations of fundamental human rights and to develop international guidelines against the practice are ...
Bassiouni, M. Cherif
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How Signals of Silence Sustain Sexual Harassment and What to Do About It
ABSTRACT Sexual harassment has persisted for decades as an open secret within organizations, creating an ongoing challenge for Human Resource practitioners. Many employees experience or witness harassment yet say nothing. When they contemplate complaining, they are discouraged from doing so. Some still muster the courage to speak out about these abuses,
Angela L. Workman‐Stark +6 more
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An empirical analysis of worldwide impunity
Our research investigates the relationship between economic and social development indicators and the prevalence of impunity within a country. As countries develop, their institutions tend to function more efficiently and impartially, resulting in less ...
Francisco Cribari-Neto +1 more
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Memoria, verdad y justicia en Uruguay: la gestión del pasado en un escenario de luces y sombras
The Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) decision of February 2011, in the Gelman case, forced the Uruguayan State to guarantee that the judicial investigations of serious violations of human rights were carried out effectively, within a ...
Raúl Olivera Alfaro
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Complex social and political factors threaten the world's smallest primate with extinction
We highlight current problems, challenges and dilemmas of conservation action in Madagascar, which is one of the poorest countries, but also the hottest global biodiversity hotspot.
Peter M. Kappeler +4 more
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Lessons from the Americas: Guidelines for International Response to Amnesties for Atrocities [PDF]
The impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of human rights violations, thanks in part to amnesty laws, is summarized. The international community should adopt guidelines to assist their own officials in responding to future ...
Cassel, Douglass
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Alberto Toscano on Danilo Zolo, La giustizia dei vincitori: Da Norimberga a Baghdad. A Florentine legal scholar traces the postwar development of a system of punitive international law, and its 1990s deployment by the West to impose 'victors' justice'.
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Perpetual Impunity: Lessons learned from the global system of rendition and secret detention [PDF]
It is now well documented that the Blair government was colluding at the highest levels in the global system for the rendition, detention and interrogation of terror suspects, at the same time as repeatedly denying any involvement.
Blakeley, Ruth, Rapahel, Sam
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