Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio detallado de la complicidad de las empresas en los crímenes internacionales
En la actualidad, se presta cada vez más atención a la implicación de las empresas en las violaciones de los derechos humanos. Las sociedades de capital pueden ser consideradas responsables de crímenes de guerra, crímenes de lesa humanidad y genocidio cometidos en terceros países. El proyecto CORPACCOUNT, financiado con fondos europeos, arrojará luz sobre las movilizaciones y contramovilizaciones transnacionales para que las empresas multinacionales y sus representantes rindan cuentas por su complicidad en los principales crímenes internacionales cometidos durante las dictaduras y los conflictos violentos desde los años setenta del siglo pasado. Realizará un análisis sociológico tanto de los movimientos activistas como de los grupos y asociaciones empresariales que participan en las campañas transnacionales de responsabilidad. También se examinarán diversas ideas y estrategias para hacer frente a la violencia empresarial.
Objetivo
This project provides crucial insights into the transnational mobilisations and counter-mobilisations for holding multinational corporations and their representatives accountable for complicity in major international crimes (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity) committed during dictatorships and violent conflicts since the 1970s. It brings three major innovations to an emergent literature in the fields of transitional justice and international criminal law that recently turned its attention to corporate accountability: 1) It delivers a critical sociological analysis of both advocacy movements and business groups and associations involved in transnational accountability campaigns, focusing on their political, professional and regional activist agendas and divergent approaches to corporate liability. 2) It analyses various ideas and strategies of dealing with corporate violence and illuminates the socio-political conditions under which they succeed in enforcing accountability. 3) It explores how different visions of human rights, economic globalisation, development and democratisation shape accountability strategies. To achieve these objectives, the project focuses on four types of transnational campaigns that spread across the Global South and the Global North and on the resulting response from states, international organisations, and business groups: a) advocacy for criminalising corporate misconduct in international/regional treaties; b) civil and criminal litigations; c) legislative initiatives for prohibiting trade with and investment in dictatorial settings; and d) boycotts. Through its global geographical scope, the diversity of pro-accountability actors and business groups involved, and the plurality of repertoires and arenas of transnational activism, the project examines both the convergence of an international anti-impunity ethos and the fragmentation of ideas about corporate accountability on a global level.
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
010643 Bucuresti
Rumanía