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8 October 2024, Berlin

Book Launch “The Justice of Humans”

Berlin
8 October 2024, 5:30 pm
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
Zossener Str. 55-58 (Staircase D), 10961 Berlin

The book

Justice for conflict-related sexual violence remains a critical problem for global society today. This ground-breaking book addresses pressing questions for ‘international justice’: what do existing approaches to international justice offer to victims of war and societies in conflict? And what possibilities do they provide for feminist social transformation?  The Justice of Humans develops a new feminist approach to ‘international justice’. Adopting a socio-legal perspective, it studies two major contemporary examples of legal and feminist approaches to justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Women’s Court (former Yugoslavia), focusing on their treatment of sexual violence as a gender-based crime. Drawing on feminist social theory, legal analysis, and empirical research, the book offers an innovative feminist framework for understanding ‘international justice’ and offers new theoretical and practical strategies for building feminist justice.

 

The author: Professor Kirsten Campbell (Goldsmiths University of London)

Kirsten Campbell is a Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths College.  Her research investigates conflict-related sexual violence in international criminal law and transitional justice.  Kirsten has worked on policy and practice in this area with NGOs, governments, and the UN. Her recent book, The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society, and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice draws on her European Research Council projects, The Gender of Justice, and TRANSFORM. 

Kirsten currently directs the Unit for Global Justice and convenes the Gender of Justice research group. She is also a member of the “International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’”. She has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po, Lund University, and UC Berkeley. Kirsten previously taught sociology at Brunel University, and practised as a commercial litigation lawyer.

 

A short presentation of the book will be followed by a panel discussion with:

Dr. Monika Hauser (medica mondiale)

Dr. Kalika Mehta (Humboldt University)

Moderated by Dr. Annelen Micus (ECCHR)

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