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TARDE ABIERTATARDE ABIERTA T06C168 Entrevista Kathryn Sikkink (09/05/2025)
La docente explica la importancia del Derecho Internacional y de la Corte Penal Internacional para mantener la Justicia Universal frente a los conflictos armados en Ucrania y Gaza. También la resistencia de las universidades estadounidenses ante las amenazas y chantajes de la Administración Trump.
2025-05-0913 min
Faculty VoicesEpisode 59: Kathryn Sikkink on the Transitional Justice DatabaseKathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, talks about the findings of a new database for transitional justice: https://transitionaljusticedata.org/ You may find some of them surprising!2024-08-1525 min
What's Wrong with Democracy?Episode 8: The case for an independent judiciaryThis week, as more of our political institutions are rocked by corruption from partisan forces, Ben wants to know how we can protect the independence of our judiciaries, and what happens when they go wrong. When democratic institutions fail, what does this do to our faith in democracy? And can a compromised judiciary ever be restored?Guests:Fida Hammami, Amnesty International's Tunisia Research and Advocacy AdvisorBen 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...2024-07-1038 min
Justice MattersJustice for Victims: Lessons from Around the WorldOn 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.Phoung Pham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a leading expert in the collection and evaluation of victim cent...2024-05-0145 min
PolicyCastThe document that redefined humanity: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75Harvard Kennedy School Professor Kathryn Sikkink and former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth have spent years both studying the transformational effects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and have worked on the ground to make its vision of a more just, equal world a reality. On December 10th, the world celebrated not only the annual Human Rights Day, but also the 75th anniversary of the UDHR, which some historians and social scientists consider to be the greatest achievement in the history of humankind. It was the first time representatives of the world community declared that...2023-12-2143 minJustice MattersThe Birth of US Human Rights PolicyOn this episode of Justice Matters, co-host Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, 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 US and human rights in 1973, and later went on to work at the Human Rights Bureau at the US State Department. Prior to 1973, human rights were not explicitly incorporated into US foreign policy.
Also in 1973, Joe Eldridge founded the Washington Office of Latin...2023-11-1529 minFaculty VoicesEpisode 44: Kathryn Sikkink on the 50th Anniversary of the Sept. 11 Coup In ChileKathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the 50th anniversary of the Sept. 11 coup in Chile and why the coup still matters.2023-09-1128 min
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Law on FilmArgentina, 1985 & Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (Guest: Rachel López) (episode 8)This episode examines Argentina, 1985 (2022) (directed by Santiago Mitre) and the documentary, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) (directed by Pamela Yates). Both works engage with questions of transitional justice, or how societies confront mass atrocities committed by a prior repressive regime. Argentina, 1985 depicts the Trial of the Juntas in Argentina, where a prosecution team led by Julio César Strassera (Ricardo Darín) and future-ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani), sought to bring leaders of Argentina’s former military dictatorship to justice for human rights abuses committed during the so-called Dirty War. Granito: How to Nail a Dict...2023-07-251h 01
Onze Supremos#147 O STF e o Sistema Interamericano (com Flávia Piovesan)Hoje é dia de Direito Internacional no Onze Supremos. Contamos com a participação ilustre da professora Flávia Piovesan para nos apresentar o Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos, sua Corte e Comissão e como elas têm dialogado com o Supremo Tribunal Federal na busca da efetivação de seus objetivos.
Lattes da convidada: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1701611968664709
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00:26 Apresentação do convidado
02:33 O que é o Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos
11:24 Funções da Corte e da Co...2023-07-0746 min
Deep Dish on Global AffairsWanted: Vladimir Putin for Crimes Against ChildrenThe ICC has dubbed Vladimir Putin personally responsible for the abductions of children from Ukraine. While the world focuses on Putin’s prospects, Deep Dish dives into the underlying issue: accountability, justice, and protection of the most vulnerable victims of war. Experts Nathaniel Raymond and Kathryn Sikkink unpack the tragic reality of child abductions during times of conflict, how the indictments might affect these Ukrainian children, and whether this could truly deter child abductions in future war crimes. Reading List: Russia's Systematic Program for the Re-Education and Adoption of Ukrainian Children, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale Scho...2023-04-1341 min
ezracetoesracDownloadPDF The Justice Cascade How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics [Free Ebook]Download The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics Full Edition,Full Version,Full Book by Kathryn SikkinkReading Now at : https://happyreadingebook.club/?book=0393079937ORDOWNLOAD EBOOK NOW![PDF] Download DownloadPDF The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics [Free Ebook] Ebook | READ ONLINE Download DownloadPDF The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics [Free Ebook] read ebook online PDF EPUB KINDLE Download DownloadPDF The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics [Free...2023-03-2600 min
The Belt and Road PodcastChina's Growing Flirtations with International NGO Collaboration with May Farid and Hui LiMay Farid and Hui Li drop by the podcast to talk about INGOs, or international non-governmental organizations, and specifically how their relationship with China is shifting as China goes global. The conversation focuses on their article "International NGOs as intermediaries in China's 'going out' strategy." May Farid is a political scientist studying civil society, policy and development in contemporary China and beyond. She is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center on China's Economy and Institutions and a Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has worked ex...2023-03-2447 min
Occupied ThoughtsWhy Did Harvard Deny a Fellowship to the Former Director of Human Rights Watch? Israel.In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” FMEP Non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart is joined by Ken Roth (formerly Human Rights Watch) and Harvard professor Kathryn Sikkink to discuss the recent controversy over Harvard's decision to cancel its offer of a fellowship to Ken Roth, based on accusations of anti-Israel bias by both Human Rights Watch and by Ken.2023-01-1359 min
National Security This WeekA conversation about human rights with Dr. Kathryn Sikkink (8/03/22)Host Jon Olson and Dr. Kathryn Sikkink from Harvard’s Kennedy School discuss human rights, refugees and asylum seekers.2022-08-041h 01
PolicyCastHow worldwide outrage over atrocities in Ukraine is fueling a new push for international justiceInternational outrage over Russia's war on Ukraine could be a watershed moment for the advance of international justice and accountability, say Harvard Kennedy School Professor Kathryn Sikkink and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Patrick Vinck. With the eyes of the world focused on atrocities in places like Bucha and Mariupol, Sikkink and Vinck say it is time for countries to invest both their geopolitical and financial capital in the International Criminal Court or the ICC. Established 20 years ago in The Hague, Netherlands, the ICC was the world’s first permanent international criminal court tasked wi...2022-04-1937 minFaculty VoicesEpisode 23: Latin America and Human RightsKathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses how Latin America has been a protagonist in the development of human rights law, not just a victim of global politics. And as war wages in the Ukraine, she gives us her thoughts on how international law has virtually put an end to what she calls “aggressive interstate wars” in Latin America.2022-03-1128 min
New Books in Human RightsKathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities" (Yale UP, 2020)In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism, she makes the case that human rights cannot be truly implemented unless we also recognise that there are corresponding obligations to implement those rights.Recognising that talk of responsibility, obligation and duty are often unpopular - because people do not like to be told what they ‘should’ do - Sikkink advocates that we rethink how we conc...2020-09-161h 02
New Books in LawKathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities" (Yale UP, 2020)In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism, she makes the case that human rights cannot be truly implemented unless we also recognise that there are corresponding obligations to implement those rights.Recognising that talk of responsibility, obligation and duty are often unpopular - because people do not like to be told what they ‘should’ do - Sikkink advocates that we rethink how we conceive of responsibility – it sho...2020-09-161h 02
ROCKING OUR PRIORS"Evidence for Hope": Professor Kathryn SikkinkProfessor Kathryn Sikkink (at the Harvard Kennedy School) argues that human rights laws, institutions, and movements are both legitimate and effective.
We discuss whether human rights are western imperialism; whether rights movements help improve conditions for the masses; and what we still don't know about norm dynamics, but desperately need to find out!
You can buy the book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170626/evidence-for-hope
Professor Sikkink is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/kathryn-sikkink2019-11-0132 min
WorldlyDuck and coverZack, Jenn, and Alex address one of the world’s biggest threats: nuclear war. There’s a small but still very real chance that nuclear weapons will be used in our lifetimes; the gang discusses how that could happen — and what it would look like if the bomb actually went off. For Elsewhere, they end the episode on a “high” note: discussing the impact of Canada’s recent legalization of marijuana. Zack comes up with a new nuclear Pokémon, Jenn complains about “dirty hippies,” and Alex finds a way to talk about the World Cup. Throughout the episode, we drew on Alex W...2018-10-2527 min
SOAS RadioMaking Human Rights Work in the 21st Century - Interview with Prof. Kathryn SikkinkIn this podcast, Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri (Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS) talks to Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) about her book "The Evidence of Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century", the forgotten Latin American origins of human rights and the erasure of agency of the global south, and the unknown drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.2018-02-2235 minJustice MattersA Hopeful Approach to Human RightsA monthly podcast from the Carr Center for Human Rights. In this episode, Carr Center Executive Director Sushma Raman interviews Professor Kathryn Sikkink on why there is evidence for hope - and why knowing more about human rights is critical.
2018-01-3016 min
Snack Break with AroopDr. Kathryn Sikkink - Human Rights in the 21st CenturyHost Aroop Mukharji interviews Harvard professor and political scientist Dr. Kathryn Sikkink about human rights, her new book "Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century" (Princeton University Press 2017), and shortbread.2017-07-1000 min
PolicyCast152 Reason for HopeHKS Professor Kathryn Sikkink shows how human rights efforts over the last century have largely succeeded in improving the living conditions for the vast majority of the world, and that even though the work is far from over and setbacks are inevitable, there is reason to have hope for things to continue to improve.
2017-02-0123 min
AshCastBook Talk With Dara Kay Cohen, author of Rape During Civil WarOn September 22, 2016, The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Dara Kay Cohen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Author of Rape During Civil War, who’s book is titled Rape During Civil War. Providing a response were Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science & International and Area Studies, Yale University and Roger Petersen, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT. The seminar was moderated by Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. This event was co-sponsored by the HKS Women and Public Policy Program, Carr Center for Human Ri...2016-10-031h 19
Salvo Melhor JuízoSMJ #8 - Judiciário e DitaduraO fim das “águas de março” e o início do “abril vermelho” é um período em que se busca refletir sobre o que foi o golpe militar de 1964 e quais consequências da ditadura civil-militar ainda rastejam e entulham o Estado brasileiro. Sem o interesse de criar artificiais conexões entre 1964 e 2016, é preciso antes identificar as especificidades daquele período dentro dos jogos de poder e disputas existentes à época.
Muito se fala – com razão – sobre a tortura, as violações de direitos humanos, o processo econômico e político, mas nem sempre o papel do direito e do poder judiciário é rele...2016-04-041h 38
Salvo Melhor JuízoSMJ #8 - Judiciário e DitaduraO fim das “águas de março” e o início do “abril vermelho” é um período em que se busca refletir sobre o que foi o golpe militar de 1964 e quais consequências da ditadura civil-militar ainda rastejam e entulham o Estado brasileiro. Sem o interesse de criar artificiais conexões entre 1964 e 2016, é preciso antes identificar as especificidades daquele período dentro dos jogos de poder e disputas existentes à época.
Muito se fala – com razão – sobre a tortura, as violações de direitos humanos, o processo econômico e político, mas nem sempre o papel do direito e do poder judiciário é rele...2016-04-041h 38Salvo Melhor JuízoSMJ #8 - Judiciário e DitaduraO fim das “águas de março” e o início do “abril vermelho” é um período em que se busca refletir sobre o que foi o golpe militar de 1964 e quais consequências da ditadura civil-militar ainda rastejam e entulham o Estado brasileiro. Sem o interesse de criar artificiais conexões entre 1964 e 2016, é preciso antes identificar as especificidades daquele período dentro dos jogos de poder e disputas existentes à época.
Muito se fala – com razão – sobre a tortura, as violações de direitos humanos, o processo econômico e político, mas nem sempre o papel do direito e do poder judiciário é rele...2016-04-041h 38
Open Society Foundations PodcastLatin America and the Justice CascadeKathryn Sikkink and César Rodríguez-Garavito examine the new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations through domestic and international prosecutions. Speakers: James Goldston, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Kathryn Sikkink. (Recorded: Nov 13, 2013)2014-01-141h 22
Politics and International Relations PodcastsThe Role of Agency in ConstructivismKathryn Sikkink (Blavatnik School of Government) discusses 'The Role of Agency in Constructivism' in the 'Future of Constructivist Research in International Relations' conference (30 April 2013). This half-day workshop discussed the contributions of constructivism and what the future constructivist research agenda might look like. It was organised by the Centre for International Studies.2013-05-2243 min
Minerva CastPodcast No. 9 - Interview with Kathryn SikkinkDan interviews Kathryn Sikkink of the University of Minnesota and author, most recently, of The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics.2012-09-2200 min
Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International RelationsThe Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World PoliticsA talk by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink from the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, about her new book, "The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics." This lecture was co-sponsored by the UCLA Intern2012-02-2856 min
Human Rights (Audio)The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World PoliticsAuthor and political science professor Kathryn Sikkink argues that in the last three decades, leaders in Latin America, Europe and Africa have been held accountable for their human rights violations, a shift that is having profound consequences on global politics. Sikkink is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23247]2012-02-1355 minHuman Rights (Audio)The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World PoliticsAuthor and political science professor Kathryn Sikkink argues that in the last three decades, leaders in Latin America, Europe and Africa have been held accountable for their human rights violations, a shift that is having profound consequences on global politics. Sikkink is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23247]2012-02-1355 minHuman Rights (Video)The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World PoliticsAuthor and political science professor Kathryn Sikkink argues that in the last three decades, leaders in Latin America, Europe and Africa have been held accountable for their human rights violations, a shift that is having profound consequences on global politics. Sikkink is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23247]2012-02-1355 min