International courts in an era of smartphones and social media – improving human rights accountability?
Videos shared on social media have become important evidence to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable. What does this increased use of digital open source evidence mean for the quality of international human rights accountability? Does it make international courts more efficient in ensuring human rights accountability, as many assume? And what can be done to mitigate potential downsides, such as deep fakes and implicit biases in legal judgments? Through an innovative experimental design, this project will help us understand how digitalization is changing the way how perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity are held accountable.
Funding: Dutch Research Council/ NWO
Funding: Dutch Research Council/ NWO
Resilience of International Organizations
In this project, I analyze international organizations' (IOs) responses to contestation by member states. How do IOs react to budgetary measures, membership withdrawals or systematic non-compliance with core values by member states? And what factors explain the different ways in which IOs respond to these challenges? Integrating the insights from organization theory into research on multilateralism, this project analyzes three types of responses of IO bureaucracies: inertia, i.e. no immediate response; adaptation, i.e. institutional changes to maintain the support of the challenging member state(s); and resilience-building, i.e. developing organizational capacities to limit contestation.
2021 in International Affairs 97: 6
2022 in The Duck of Minerva Blog
2023 in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (online first)
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation (project: "Multilateralism under attack")
2021 in International Affairs 97: 6
2022 in The Duck of Minerva Blog
2023 in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (online first)
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation (project: "Multilateralism under attack")
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