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Naming and shaming

Explore research on the use of naming and shaming as a tool to help prevent mass atrocities.

Sources

We included the following 23 research reports in our review:

Allendoerfer, Michelle Giacobbe; Murdie, Amanda; Welch, Ryan M. "The Path of the Boomerang: Human Rights Campaigns, Third-Party Pressure, and Human Rights," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 64 (2020): 111-119, DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqz082.

Breslawski, Jori; Cunningham, David E.; Fleishman, Madeline. "Regional Organizations and Conflict Management," 2022, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4239908

Broache, Michael P.; Cronin-Furman, Kate. "Does Type of Violence Matter for Interventions to Mitigate Mass Atrocities?," Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020): 1-9, DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz068.

Burgoon, Brian; Ruggeri, Andrea; Schudel, Willem; Manikkalingam, Ram. "From Media Attention to Negotiated Peace: Human Rights Reporting and Civil War Duration," International Interactions, vol. 41, no. 2 (2015): 226-255, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2014.942898.

Bussmann, Margit; Schneider, Gerald. "A porous humanitarian shield: The laws of war, the red cross, and the killing of civilians," Review of International Organizations, vol. 11, no. 3 (2016): 337-359, DOI: 10.1007/s11558-015-9233-9.

Conrad, Courtenay R.; DeMeritt, Jacqueline H.R. "Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Advocacy to End Torture on Empowerment Rights Violations" in Lightcap, Tracy; Pfiffner, James, ed. Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.

DeMeritt, Jacqueline H.R. "International Organizations and Government Killing: Does Naming and Shaming Save Lives?," International Interactions, vol. 38, no. 5 (2012): 597-621, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2012.726180.

DeMeritt, Jacqueline H.R.; Conrad, Courtenay R. "Repression Substitution: Shifting Human Rights Violations in Response to UN Naming and Shaming," Civil Wars, vol. 21, no. 1 (2019): 128-152, DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2019.1602805.

Franklin, James C. "Shame on You: The Impact of Human Rights Criticism on Political Repression in Latin America," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1 (2008): 187-211, https://www.jstor.org/stable/29734229.   Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J. "International Attention and the Treatment of Political Prisoners," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4 (2021), 999-1011, DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqab017.

Hafner-Burton, Emilie M. "Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Human Rights Enforcement Problem," International Organization, vol. 62, no. 4 (2008): 689-716, DOI: 10.101 7/S0020818308080247. 

Hendrix, Cullen S.; Wong, Wendy H. "When Is the Pen Truly Mighty? Regime Type and the Efficacy of Naming and Shaming in Curbing Human Rights Abuses," British Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3 (2012): 651-672, DOI: 10.1017/S0007123412000488.

Kahn-Nisser, Sara. "Constructive Criticism: Shaming, Incentives, and Human Rights Reforms," Politics and Policy, vol. 46, no. 1 (2018): 58-83, DOI: 10.1111/polp.12240.

Kahn-Nisser, Sara. "For better or worse: Shaming, faming, and human rights abuse," Journal of Peace Research, (2020): 1-15, DOI: 10.1177/0022343320905346.

Kinzelbach, Katrin; Lehmann, Julian. Can Shaming Promote Human Rights? Publicity in Human Rights Foreign Policy, European Liberal Forum, 2015, ​​https://www.gppi.net/2015/12/14/can-shaming-promote-human-rights

Krain, Matthew. "J'accuse! Does Naming and Shaming Perpetrators Reduce the Severity of Genocides or Politicides?," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3 (2012): 574-589, DOI: 10.1111/j.l468-2478.2012.00732.x. 

Murdie, Amanda M.; Davis, David R. "Shaming and Blaming: Using Events Data to Assess the Impact of Human Rights INGOs," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 1 (2012): 1-16, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00694.x.

Murdie, Amanda; Peksen, Dursun. "Women’s rights INGO shaming and the government respect for women’s rights," Review of International Organizations, vol. 10, no. 1 (2014): 1-22, DOI: 10.1007/s11558-014-9200-x.

Nyamutata, C. "Engaging or Shaming? An Analysis of UN’s Naming and Shaming of Child Abusers in Armed Conflict," Journal of International Humanitarian Legal, vol. 4 (2013): 151-173, DOI: 10.1163/18781527-00401005. 

Sowell, Marsha. "Helping or Hurting? The Impact of Naming and Shaming on Repression in Military Regimes," prepared for the 2012 International Studies Association Convention in San Diego, CA, April 1-4, 2012, http://files.isanet.org/ConferenceArchive/06f94d43c83d44139afae2c0e3cb2788.pdf

Strezhnev, Anton; Kelley, Judith G.; Simmons, Beth A. "Testing for Negative Spillovers: Is Promoting Human Rights Really Part of the “Problem”?," International Organization, vol. 75, no. 1 (2021), 71-102, DOI: 10.1017/S0020818320000661.

Terman, Rochelle. Rewarding Resistance: Theorizing Defiance to International Shaming, 2019, http://rochelleterman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Terman_Defiance_06_11_2019.pdf.

Zhou, Yuan; Kiyani, Ghashia; Crabtree, Charles. "New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 22, no. 4 (2022), 451-468, DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2022.2122785.

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