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The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America

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Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international human rights trials. In the mid-1980s, scholars of transitions to democracy...

Behind Bars and Bargains: New Findings on Transitional Justice in Emerging Democracies: Research Note

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Making Tyrants Do Time

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In this op-ed for The New York Times, Kathryn Sikkink argues "that transitional countries — those moving from authoritarian governments to democracy or from civil war to peace — where human rights prosecutions have taken place subsequently become less...

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Click on the blue links and embedded videos and audio to watch and listen. Watch: Justicia Transicional y Género en el Mundo y en América Latina February 26, 2025: Kathryn speaks at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay about transitional...

The Emergence, Evolution, and Effectiveness of the Latin American Human Rights Network

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Q+A with Kathryn Sikkink

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Response to Jack Goldsmith: Trump's Indictment in Global Context

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Jack Goldsmith, in his guest essay in the New York Times on August 8 th, argued that the prosecution of Trump for criminal actions in connection to the 2020 presidential election “may have terrible consequences” for the US legal and political system...

Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms

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Evidence indicates that we should be hopeful—not hopeless-—about human rights

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Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-Outsider Coalition

Book Chapter

Deterrence and Impunity: Insights from Human Rights Prosecutions for an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC)

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Kathryn Sikkink Last week, I attended an invigorating workshop on the need for an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC), organized by the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS), under the leadership of Robert Rotberg and Judge Mark Wolf. Some of...

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Kathryn Sikkink Sikkink works on international norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, the impact of human rights law and policies, and transitional justice.