Part IV

The articles “Amnesty Measures and the Struggle against Impunity: A Possible Reconciliation?” and “Brief Overview on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Latin America” were written as part of the ATLAS research project—“Armed Conflict, Peacekeeping, Transitional Justice: Law as Solution,” which involves seven universities and research centers in Europe, including the University of Bucharest, through the Center for Human Rights within the Faculty of Law, and is coordinated by the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. The objective of the ATLAS Project is to study the role and concrete impact of international humanitarian law during armed conflict, as well as how international humanitarian law has been incorporated into the legal systems of European Union member states, with the aim of shaping a possible common EU policy in this area. In this context, the study “Amnesty Measures and the Struggle against Impunity: A Possible Reconciliation?” examines the compatibility of amnesty measures adopted in certain countries on the African and South American continents, as well as in Europe, with the need to hold individuals suspected of committing international crimes criminally accountable—whether before domestic courts or international tribunals. The second study, “Brief Overview on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Latin America,” complements the first study by providing an overview of the phenomenon of “truth and reconciliation commissions” as an alternative to judicial proceedings in post-conflict societies in certain Latin American countries.

Keywords: international humanitarian law; international criminal law; amnesty; truth and reconciliation commissions; international crimes.