Mallinder, Louise (2009) The Role of Amnesties in Conflict Transformation. In: The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice. (Eds: Ryngaert, Cedric), Intersentia, pp. 195
Mallinder, Louise (2009) The Role of Amnesties in Conflict Transformation. In: The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice. (Eds: Ryngaert, Cedric), Intersentia, pp. 195-234. ISBN 978-90-5095-812-7 [Book section]
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Amnesty laws are introduced during and after conflicts for a diverse array of reasons. These can range from amnesties that release members of banned organisations from prison, to amnesties that protect combatants from investigation and prosecution. These amnesties can be introduced in good faith to enable peace talks to proceed, to comply with international pressure to release political prisoners, or in recognition that the parties have fought themselves to a stalemate. In some cases, parties to conflicts have also used amnesties cynically in order to ‘buy’ time to re-equip and find new recruits.Amnesty laws also have considerable differences in scope. Traditionally, many amnesties following conflicts simply offered an automatic amnesty to