Review of Kathryn Sikkink's The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

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Acknowledgments

Leslie Vinjamuri is Lecturer in International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Notes

1. Also see Neier (2011) and Orentlicher (2008).

2. Others such as Teitel (2011) have noted the shift to individual accountability.

3. In fact, sequencing has become such a source of contention that Human Rights Watch recently devoted an entire report to this topic. See Human Rights Watch (2011).

4. At a time when others were calling for the ICC to get involved in Libya, Crisis Group deliberately stopped short of calling for Libya to be referred to the ICC. See International Crisis Group (2011).

5. The Research Unit at the International Center for Transitional Justice is among those NGOs most engaged in researching this question.