Granting amnesty to former government officials requires looking not only at international law obligations, but also at political realities, and individual and societal needs for justice and reconciliation.
In designing an appropriate amnesty, the granting state must resolve the conflict between its duty to prosecute certain international crimes and its own issues of national sovereignty and societal reconciliation. Resolution will require balancing the legal, political, and social objectives and realities surrounding the grant of amnesty.
