Official Amnesties

We included the following 30 research reports in our review:

Aghedo, Iro. "Sowing Peace, Reaping Violence: Understanding the Resurgence of Kidnapping in Post-amnesty Niger Delta, Nigeria," Insight on Africa, vol. 7, no. 2 (2015): 137-153, DOI: 10.1177/0975087815580729.

Aghedo, Iro. "Winning the War, Losing the Peace: Amnesty and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace-Building in the Niger Delta, Nigeria," Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (2013): 267-280, DOI: 10.1177/0021909612453987.

Allan, Kate. "Prosecution and Peace: A Role for Amnesty before the ICC," Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, vol. 39, no. 2 (2010): 239-301, https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=djilp. 

Almuslem, Abdulaziz G. "Post Conflict Justice, Peacekeeping, and Civil Conflict Recurrence," International Peacekeeping, vol. 27, no. 3 (2020): 467-509, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2020.1744440.

Arnould, Valerie. "Amnesty, peace and reconciliation in Algeria," Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 7, no. 2 (2007): 227-253, DOI: 10.1080/14678800701333028. 

Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Nordås, Ragnhild. "Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 66, no. 6 (2022), 1066-1090, DOI: 10.1177/00220027221078330. 

Brannigan, Augustine; Jones, Nicholas A. "Genocide and the Legal Process in Rwanda: From Genocide Amnesty to the New Rule of Law," International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 19, no. 2 (2009), 192-207, DOI: 10.1177/1057567709335392.

Dancy, Geoff; Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Eric. “Trials of Peace: Post-Conflict Criminal Prosecutions and Conflict Recurrence,” 2019, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3320577. 

Dancy, Geoff. “Deals with the Devil? Conflict Amnesties, Civil War, and Sustainable Peace,” 2018, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324016527_Deals_with_the_Devil_Conflict_Amnesties_Civil_War_and_Sustainable_Peace. 

Daniels, Lesley-Ann. "How and When Amnesty during Conflict Affects Conflict Termination," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 64, no. 9 (2020): 1612-1637, DOI: 10.1177/0022002720909884.

Davidheiser, Mark; Nyiayaana, Kialee. "Demobilization or Remobilization? The Amnesty Program and the Search for Peace in the Niger Delta," African Security, vol. 4, no. 1 (2011): 44-64, DOI: 10.1080/19392206.2011.551063.

Goodnews, Osah; Amakihe, Bartholomew. "War- to-Peace Transition in the Niger Delta: Is Amnesty Working?," IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 5, no. 5 (2014): 1-7, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325628253_War-_to-Peace_Transition_in_the_Niger_Delta_Is_Amnesty_Working. 

Iloanugo, Uzoma; Dutta, Indranil; Haque, M. Emranul. “Do Amnesty Policies Reduce Conflict? Evidence from the Niger-Delta Amnesty Program,” The University of Manchester, 2020, http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/schools/soss/economics/discussionpapers/EDP-2011.pdf. 

Jeffery, Renée. "Amnesties and intractable conflicts: Managed impunity in The Philippines' Bangsamoro peace process," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 17, no. 4 (2018): 436-452, DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2017.1382339.

Jeffery, Renée. "Amnesty and Accountability: The Price of Peace in Aceh, Indonesia," The International Journal of Transitional Justice, vol. 6, no. 1 (2012): 60-82, DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijr027.

King, Elizabeth B. Ludwin. "Amnesties in a Time of Transition," The Geo. Wash. Intl L. Rev., vol. 41 (2009-2010): 577-618, https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/gwilr41&div=25&id=&page=. 

Lie, Tove Grete; Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Gates, Scott. “Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace,” Policy Research Working Paper, no. 4191, World Bank, 2007, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7007.

Loyle, Cyanne E.; Appel, Benjamin J. "Conflict Recurrence and Postconflict Justice: Addressing Motivations and Opportunities for Sustainable Peace," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 61 (2017): 690-703, DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqx045.

Nwokolo, Ndubuisi; Aghedo, Iro. "Consolidating or Corrupting the Peace? The Power Elite and Amnesty Policy in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria," Chinese Political Science Review, vol. 3 (2018): 322-344, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41111-018-0098-y. 

Oluduro, Olubayo; Oluduro, Olubisi F. "Nigeria: In Search of Sustainable Peace in the Niger Delta through the Amnesty Programme," Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 5, no. 7 (2012): 48-61, DOI: 10.5539/jsd.v5n7p48.

Osumah, Oarhe. "No war, no peace: The example of peacebuilding in the post-amnesty Niger Delta region of Nigeria," African Security Review, vol. 22, no. 4 (2013): 244-263, DOI: 10.1080/10246029.2013.838793.

Pensky, Max. "Amnesty on trial: impunity, accountability, and the norms of international law," Ethics & Global Politics, vol. 1, no. 1-2 (2008): 1-40, DOI: 10.3402/egp.v1i1.1816.

Reiter, Andrew G. "Examining the use of amnesties and pardons as a response to internal armed conflict,"Israel Law Review, vol. 47, no. 1 (2014): 133-147, DOI: 10.1017/S0021223713000290.

Scharf, Michael P. “Swapping Amnesty for Peace: Was There a Duty to Prosecute International Crimes in Haiti?," Faculty Publications, vol. 31, no. 1 (1997): 1-41, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/344. 

Snyder, Jack; Vinjamuri, Leslie. "Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice," International Security, vol. 28, no. 3 (2003/2004): 5-44, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4137476. 

Trumbull IV, Charles P. "Giving Amnesties a Second Chance," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 2 (2007): 284-345, https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1121050?ln=en. 

Ushie, Vanessa. "Nigeria's Amnesty Programme as a Peacebuilding Infrastructure: A Silver Bullet?," Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, vol. 8, no. 1 (2013): 30-44, DOI: 10.1080/15423166.2013.789255.

Van Wijk, Joris. "Should We Ever Say Never?" in Victimological Approaches to International Crimes, Intersentia, 2011.

Vandeginste, Stef. "Bypassing The Prohibition Of Amnesty For Human Rights Crimes Under International Law: Lessons Learned From The Burundi Peace Process," Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 29, no. 2 (2011): 189-211, https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r26646.pdf. 

Yarbrough, Stella. "Amnesty or Accountability: The Fate of High-Ranking Child Soldiers in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 47 (2014): 531-568, https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1226&context=vjtl.