Introduction&Francesca Lessa and Leigh A. Payne 1
PART Ⅰ: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 19
1. The Age of Accountability: The Global Rise of Individual Criminal Accountability&Kathryn Sikkink 19
2. The Amnesty Controversy in International Law&Mark Freeman and Max Pensky 42
PART Ⅱ: COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES 69
3. Amnesties' Challenge to the Global Accountability Norm? Interpreting Regional and International Trends in Amnesty Enactment&Louise Mallinder 69
4. From Amnesty to Accountability: The Ebb and Flow in the Search for Justice in Argentina&Par Engstrom and Gabriel Pereira 97
5. Barriers to Justice: The Ley de Caducidad and Impunity in Uruguay&Francesca Lessa 123
6. Resistance to Change: Brazil's Persistent Amnesty and its Alternatives for Truth and Justice&Paulo Abrao and Marcelo D. Torelly 152
7. De Facto and De Jure Amnesty Laws: The Central American Case&Emily Braid and Naomi Roht-Arriaza 182
8. Creeks of Justice: Debating Post-Atrocity Accountability and Amnesty in Rwanda and Uganda&Phil Clark 210
9. Accountability through Conditional Amnesty: The Case of South Africa&Antje du Bois-Pedain 238
10. De Facto Amnesty? The Example of Post-Soeharto Indonesia&Patrick Burgess 263
11. A Limited Amnesty? Insights from Cambodia&Ronald C. Slye 291
12. The Spanish Amnesty Law of 1977 in Comparative Perspective: From a Law for Democracy to a Law for Impunity&Paloma Aguilar 315
Conclusion: Amnesty in the Age of Accountability&Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, and Andrew G. Reiter 336
Bibliography 359
Index 383