Exploring the Practice of States in Introducing Amnesties

The National Reconciliation Process in Algeria During the Bouteflika’s Era: The Official Narrative

“…Instead, it asserts the necessity to scrutinize the variation of criminal justice effect across post-conflict contents underlying the key analytical elements that would affect crafting the headlines of that criminal justice, including the contextual characteristics, balance between the victims' requirements and peace prerequisites, justice expected from different victims' communities, and winner impact. Addressing those peacebuilding concerns, and far from the view that focuses on international law issues and whether amnesties are legitimate and legal, various scholars started to explore the diverse array of amnesty laws and investigate the extent to which those procedures could contribute to reconciliation and how those measures could be balanced with alternative mechanisms to guarantee a smooth transition (Chapman & Hugo ven der, 2008;Gavron, 2002;Mallinder, 2009;Mundy, 2015;Sarkin, 2009).…”

Shooting in the Dark: Evaluating Kosovo's Amnesty Law and the Role of International Actors

“…101 Enacting amnesty laws for the purpose of reconciliation is commonplace and sometimes even reflected in the name of the law. 104 As another analyst states, where amnesty is not linked to restitution, contrition, or acknowledgement of responsibility, it can hardly serve restorative justice. As Mallinder points out, literature on 'restorative justice' has come to understand reconciliation not simply as the absence of violence, but as a deeper 'restoration' of social relationships.…”