Making Justice Possible: The Institutional Innovators in Business and Human Rights

• In Event: Accountability Advocates: The Long and Winding Road to Justice in Latin America

Abstract

Latin America has played a protagonist role in global accountability efforts for corporate complicity in the human rights violations of past dictatorships and armed conflicts. This paper examines the explanation for that role, focusing on the work of institutional innovators in the region. The paper will examine who these innovators are, from which institutions they emerge, what they do to advance accountability. It further considers the limitations on institutional innovators, why they fail to emerge in some contexts or are blocked in others. The paper is drawn from analysis of the original Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice database

Author

• Leigh A Payne, University of Oxford