Videos & Podcasts
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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 justice and justice in the world and in Latin America. [Presentation and conversation in Spanish]
Listen: The Case for An Independent Judiciary
July 10, 2024: On this week's episode of What's Wrong with Democracy, we explore how an independent judiciary can help protect democracy and human rights. With Kathryn Sikkink and guests Fida Hammami, Amnesty International's Tunisia Research and Advocacy Advisor, and Ben Stanley, Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw and Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, we discuss how we can protect the independence of our judiciaries, what happens when they go wrong, and can a compromised judiciary ever be restored?
Listen: Justice for victims: Lessons from around the world
May 1, 2024: On today's episode of Justice Matters, co-host Kathryn Sikkink talks with Phuong Pham and Geoff Dancy about the Carr Center’s Transitional Justice Program, the culmination of the program’s research, and the creation of a research repository on the newly released Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) website that compiles data on human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and more around the world.
Listen: Times Higher Education Podcast: The role of universities in fostering civic engagement
March 1, 2024: Human rights scholar and award-winning author Kathryn Sikkink talks about her work with the Harvard Votes Challenge, how young people are more savvy about misinformation than older generations and why, in this year of elections, democracy needs protection.
December 21, 2023: Harvard Kennedy School Professor Kathryn Sikkink and former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth tell the story of the document some scholars call humankind’s greatest achievement.
Listen: "Justice Matters" Podcast from the Carr Center: The Birth of U.S. Human Rights Policy
November 15, 2023: Kathryn is the guest host on the Carr Center for Human Rights podcast, Justice Matters. She speaks with two veterans of the human rights movement, John Salzberg and Joe Eldridge. John Salzberg was the key staff member working with Representative Don Fraser to hold the first set of hearings about the U.S. and human rights in 1973, and later went on to work at the Human Rights Bureau at the U.S. State Department. Prior to 1973, human rights were not explicitly incorporated into U.S. foreign policy. Also in 1973, Joe Eldridge founded the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA), an early human rights NGO, to lobby for support and criticize U.S. human rights policy.
Listen: Kathryn Sikkink on the 50th Anniversary of the Sept. 11th Coup in Chile
September 11, 2023: Kathryn discusses the 50th anniversary of the Sept. 11 coup in Chile and why the coup still matters.
Listen: Wanted: Vladimir Putin for Crimes Against Children
April 13, 2023: Kathryn joins the Deep Dish podcast from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs with host Brian Hanson and the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University, Nathaniel Raymond. They discuss the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine into Russia.
Watch: Translation of Evidence for Hope into Indonesian: a Conversation with Kathryn Sikkink and Ayu Wahyuningroem
December 7, 2022
Listen: KYMN Radio's National Security This Week
August 3, 2022: Kathryn joins host Jon Olsen to discuss human rights, refugees, and asylum seekers.
April 18, 2022: Kathryn and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Patrick Vinck joined the Harvard Kennedy School's Policy Cast to discuss how the International Criminal Court can reduce war crimes and usher in a more accountable world order.
Listen: Perspectiva Global: Entrevista con Kathryn Sikkink
March 9, 2022: Kathryn joins Karla Chavez and Mariana de Obeso on Perspectiva Global to discuss her work and contributions to the study of international relations [conversation in Spanish].
Watch: Civic Responsibility and Repair of American Democracy
February 3, 2022: Kathryn joins the American Academy of Political and Social Science induction of its newest members for a discussion about the crises facing America, including the Covid-19 pandemic, a racial reckoning, and democratic backsliding. See Kathryn speak at 35:40.
Watch: Kathryn Sikkink on Rights, Responsibilities, and Evidence for Hope
February 18, 2021: Kathryn joins Dr. Donna Lyons virtually at Trinity College Dublin School of Law.
Watch: Toward a Politics of Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change
November 21, 2019: Kathryn delivers the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Watch: COVID-19: Innovating Human Rights: Responsibility, Hope, and Strategy in Crisis
April 16, 2020: Kathryn joins the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School with Cesar Rodriguez Garavito and Gulika Reddy.
Listen: Rocking Our Priors: Kathryn Sikkink on "Evidence for Hope"
November 1, 2019: Kathryn joins Rocking Our Priors host Alice Evans to discuss Evidence for Hope.
Watch: Human Rights and Hope: An Interview with Professor Kathryn Sikkink
April 9, 2019: Kathryn joins the Kings College Dickson Poon School of Law to discuss Evidence for Hope.
Watch: Looking into the Past, Envisioning the Future: Hrant Dink Foundation Conference
October 3, 2018: Kathryn delivers the keynote speech at the decennial of the International Hrant Dink Award.
Watch: Evidence for Hope | SOAS University of London
February 26, 2018: Kathryn delivers a lecture on Evidence for Hope.
Watch: Kathryn Sikkink - Human Rights in the 21st Century | Snack Break with Aroop Mukharji
July 9, 2017: Aroop Mukharji interviews Kathryn about human rights, Evidence for Hope, and shortbread.
Watch: Interview with Kathryn Sikkink at the Planethood Annual Conference
February 2016: Kathryn discusses her research on international law and illegal wars at the Planethood Annual Conference.
Watch: 'Las relaciones de soberanía no son fáciles': Kathryn SikkinkFebruary 5, 2015
Watch: Contribuciones latinoamericanas a los DDHH por Kathryn SikkinkSeptember 23, 2014
Watch: The Justice Cascade | Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute
February 6, 2012: Kathryn discusses The Justice Cascade at Duke University.
Watch: The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics
January 26, 2012: Kathryn delivers a lecture about her book The Justice Cascade at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego.
Talk by Kathryn Sikkink at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego