Past Event
Seminar
Getting Away with Mass Murder: The Logic of Atrocity Denials
Open to the Public
Speaker: Kate Cronin-Furman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program
Why do state perpetrators of mass atrocities stubbornly deny their crimes long after the evidence of guilt is clear? This talk will present an argument that such denials, even when totally unconvincing, can successfully affect members of the international community’s incentives to intervene. Evidence from Burma and Sri Lanka illustrates the specifics of this strategy and the conditions under which it is likely to succeed.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
