Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Published on 22. April 2020
396 pages
978-1-108-64117-3 (ISBN)
Description
Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign, and domestic trials and truth commissions from the 1970s to the present in every region of the world. This book probes what these accountability efforts are, why they take place, and when, where, and how they unfold. Analysis of the authors' original database leads them to conclude that 'corporate accountability from below' is underway, particularly in Latin America. A kind of Archimedes' lever places the right tools in weak local actors' hands to lift weighty international human rights claims, overcoming the near absence of international pressure and the powerful veto power of business.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 9 Halftones, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white
File size
4,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-64117-3 (9781108641173)
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Leigh A. Payne | Gabriel Pereira | Laura Bernal-Bermudez
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
Deploying Archimedes' Lever
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06/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Leigh A. Payne | Gabriel Pereira | Laura Bernal-Bermudez
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Book
04/2020
Cambridge University Press
€146.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
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Content
1. Corporate accountability from below; Part I. Obstacles to Corporate Accountability: 2. International pressure for corporate accountability; 3. The corporate veto; Part II. Accountability from Below: 4. Truth-telling from below; 5. Justice from below; 6. The impact of accountability from below; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
