Negotiating Peace: Amnesties, Justice and Human Rights

Author: Renée Jeffery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108947718
Published In: April 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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In the past two decades, peace negotiators around the world have increasingly accepted that granting amnesties for human rights violations is no longer an acceptable bargaining tool or incentive, even when the signing of a peace agreement is at stake. While many states that previously saw sweeping amnesties as integral to their peace processes now avoid amnesties for human rights violations, this anti-amnesty turn has been conspicuously absent in Asia. In Negotiating Peace: Amnesties, Justice and Human Rights, Renée Jeffery examines why peace negotiators in Asia have resisted global anti-impunity measures more fervently and successfully than their counterparts around the world. Drawing on a new global dataset of 146 peace agreements (1980–2015) and with in-depth analysis of four key cases - Timor-Leste, Aceh Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines - Jeffery uncovers the legal, political, economic and cultural reasons for the persistent popularity of amnesties in Asian peace processes.

Provides comparative analysis of over 100 peace agreements signed around the world between 1980 and 2015
Focuses on four key cases from Asia: Timor-Leste, Aceh Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines
Sets peace processes in their wider historical, political, and cultural contexts

Introduction

1. Amnesties and peace agreements: the Asia-Pacific in global comparative perspective, 1980-2015

2. Amnesties and human rights in Asia

3. Timor-Leste and Indonesia: judicial incapacity and the politics of reconciliation

4. Aceh, Indonesia: separatism, peace, and the role of the international community

5. Nepal: from Tacit acceptance to noncompliance

6. The Philippines: managing a culture of impunity in the Bangsamoro peace process

Conclusion