Guarantees of Non-Repetition in International Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - Building Peace after Conflict

This book examines the understudied, yet increasingly applied, concept of Guarantees of Non-Repetition under international human rights law and transitional justice.
Guarantees of Non-Repetition (GNRs) are measures taken to ensure that human rights abuses do not recur. They are especially crucial in post-war contexts marked by severe and systematic violations. However, although they are increasingly invoked, GNRs are not well understood, and they have so far received only limited theoretical and practical analysis. Tracing their development to the influence of international human rights law, this book considers what GNRs are, how and why they have come about, and how GNRs are implemented. Through an explication of the history, law and jurisprudence of GNR's - in regional mechanisms in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, as well as in international bodies - the book maintains the increasing importance, and as yet unfulfilled potential, of this legal obligation in transitional justice settings.
This first book to analyse the development of GNRs and their application will appeal to scholars in the areas of law and transitional justice, public policy, and socio-legal studies, as well as lawyers and policy-makers working in post-conflict situations.

List of contents

1. Guarantees of Non-Repetition: Political Commitments and Legal Obligations in Response to Internationally Wrongful Acts 2. The Obligation to Guarantees of Non-Repetition in the Inter-State Responsibility for Violation of Human Rights 3. Validating the Right to Guarantees of Non-Repetition for Human Rights Violations: An Examination from the Victim's Perspective 4. Regional Perspectives on Guarantees of Non-Repetition 5. Concluding Chapter on the Prerequisites for Guarantees of Non-Repetition and Their Potential to Prevent Human Rights Violations

About the author

Nita Shala is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Prishtina, Kosovo.

Product details

• Authors: Nita Shala
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032602127
• ISBN: 978-1-032-60212-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Transitional Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, International Criminal Law, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Legal aspects of criminology, Social Law, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Public international law: criminal law, Criminal justice law, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Causes and prevention of crime, Armed Conflict, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law