Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability

Name: Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009584968
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Author: Cyanne E. Loyle
ISBN: 9781009584968

By Cyanne E. Loyle

Cambridge University Press October 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781009584968
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Now more than ever the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold their own to account. Despite pressure to adhere to global human rights norms, governments continue to benefit from impunity for their past crimes. In an age of accountability, how do states continue to escape justice? This book presents a theory of strategic adaptation which explains the conditions under which governments adopt transitional justice without a genuine commitment to holding state forces to account. Cyanne E. Loyle develops this theory through in-depth fieldwork from Rwanda, Uganda, and Northern Ireland conducted over the last ten years.

Research in each of these cases reveals a unique strategy of adaption: coercion, containment, and concession. Using evidence from these cases, Loyle traces the conditions under which a government pursues its chosen strategies and the resulting transitional justice outcomes.

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Escaping justice in the age of accountability

2. Justice and coercion in Rwanda

3. The big tent of justice in Uganda

4. Justice concessions in Northern Ireland

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Methodology

Appendix 2: Elite interview list by case

Bibliography

Index

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