Regents Professor Kathryn Sikkink: "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?" - A talk given at the IAS on January 29, 2007
Lecture and reception in honor of Kathryn Sikkink, recently named Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota. Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international human rights trials, truth commissions, reparations, lustration, and museums and other memory sites. But relatively little multi-country empirical work has been done to evaluate the impact of such trials on actually deterring future violations of human rights. In her talk, Professor Sikkink will explore the impact human rights trials and truth commissions have on human rights, conflict, and democracy in the Latin American region, with special emphasis on Argentina and Uruguay. Cosponsored by the Department of Political Science.
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