Abendvortrag mit Harvard-Professorin Kathryn Sikkink

Das FAU Forschungszentrum Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) und die Internationale Akademie Nürnberger Prinzipien laden herzlich zum Abendvortrag von Harvard-Professorin und FAU-Ehrendoktorin Kathryn Sikkink ein:

Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability in an Era of Impunity.
Abendvortrag von Prof. Dr. Kathryn Sikkink, Professorin für Menschenrechtspolitik an der Harvard Kennedy School und Ehrendoktorin der FAU

The emergence of individual criminal accountability for war crimes, mass atrocities, and the violation of human rights is among the most dramatic normative developments in international politics over the past half-century. Nevertheless, in this article, we document a sharp global decline in prosecutions for these crimes since 2010 and develop a theory on the demand for and supply of justice to explain this trend. We show that the global shift is driven by a reduction of prosecutions in domestic courts and that the interaction of a state’s level of liberal democracy and its legacy of past human rights abuse is strongly predictive of domestic trial initiation. While past legacies of repression and violence were addressed in openings created by democratic transitions, contemporary democratic backsliding risks denying today’s victims justice in the future.

Einführung: Katrin Kinzelbach
Diskutant: Christoph Safferling

Weiterführende Informationen:

• Prof. Kathryn Sikkink
• Internationale Akademie Nürnberger Prinzipien