Race, Rights Reparations

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course focuses on the global and domestic context in which mass human rights violations occur and the methods of making amends that follow. Individual rights and obligations will be examined through the frame of international human rights and humanitarian law. We will consider the rise of the global transitional justice movement and the related mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, reparations, lustration, institutional reform, and amnesty laws) employed to facilitate peace, reconciliation, and justice. The legacy of slavery and Georgetown University’s approach to addressing it will feature among several global and domestic cases evaluated in this course.