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Does shaming human rights violators shape attitudes at home? A growing literature studies the effect of
shaming on public attitudes in the…
Can human rights organizations (HROs) shame governments without fueling racism against diasporas or appearing racist? To what extent can…
State and non-state actors often try to provoke moral emotions like guilt and shame to mobilize political change. However, tactics such as…
In November 2022, the Ethiopian government signed a cease-fire with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The international community…
With the untimely death of our colleague and friend, John G. Ruggie, the world has lost a brilliant international relations scholar and a…
As Ukrainian forces aim at a major counteroffensive against Russia, the issue of collaborators, especially in Russian-occupied areas, has…
At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students approached me to ask whether I…
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…