BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institutes' Study of Global Politics speaker serie s welcomes Guillermo Trejo from the University of Notre Dame.How do societ ies where governments have historically ignored human rights atrocities mo bilize for transitional justice (TJ)? We suggest that partisan-motivated o pposition to accountability—voters’ willingness to hold out-parties but no t in-parties accountable for wrongdoing—becomes a major obstacle to truth and justice in societies with persistent impunity. Yet the active particip ation of non-partisan victims’ organizations in TJ signals the fairness of accountability processes and mitigates opposition. We focus on Mexico\, w hich has repeatedly failed to reckon with atrocities committed under right -wing governments in autocracy and democracy. Using original surveys condu cted during Mexico’s first leftist administration\, we show that while obs ervationally the president’s leftist followers were more supportive of TJ than right-wing citizens\, experimentally both sides opposed accountabilit y when co-partisans were responsible for atrocities. \;Our central exp erimental finding reveals that the participation of victims’ organizations in TJ can sway opposition\, particularly when partisan justice deniers pe rceive organized victims to be autonomous guarantors of unbiased accountab ility processes.Guillermo Trejo is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Violence and Transitional Ju stice Lab at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research explores political violence\, social movements\, human rights and transit ional justice in Mexico and Latin America. He is the co-author of Votes\, Drugs\, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (2020 ) and author of Popular Movements in Autocracies (2012). Trejo has publish ed in top political science journals and received several prestigious awar ds\, including the Gabriel Almond and Mancur Olson Awards from APSA. His c urrent research focuses on transitional justice\, indigenous resistance to narco rule\, and the dynamics of local violence in Mexico. He is a regula r contributor to El País and Animal Político. DTEND:20250425T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260315T171222Z DTSTART:20250425T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mobilizing for Accountability Amidst Persistent Impunity: Victims' Voices in Mexico UID:RFCALITEM639091771425299178 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Moynihan Institutes' Study of Global Politics speaker series welcomes Guillermo Trejo from the University of No tre Dame.

How do societies where governments h ave historically ignored human rights atrocities mobilize for transitional justice (TJ)? We suggest that partisan-motivated opposition to accountabi lity—voters’ willingness to hold out-parties but not in-parties accountabl e for wrongdoing—becomes a major obstacle to truth and justice in societie s with persistent impunity. Yet the active participation of non-partisan v ictims’ organizations in TJ signals the fairness of accountability process es and mitigates opposition.

We focus on Mexico\, which has repeate dly failed to reckon with atrocities committed under right-wing government s in autocracy and democracy. Using original surveys conducted during Mexi co’s first leftist administration\, we show that while observationally the president’s leftist followers were more supportive of TJ than right-wing citizens\, experimentally both sides opposed accountability when co-partis ans were responsible for atrocities. \;

Our central experim ental finding reveals that the participation of victims’ organizations in TJ can sway opposition\, particularly when partisan justice deniers percei ve organized victims to be autonomous guarantors of unbiased accountabilit y processes.

Guillermo Trejo is a prof essor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab at the Kellogg Institute for In ternational Studies. His research explores political violence\, social mov ements\, human rights and transitional justice in Mexico and Latin America .

He is the co-author of Votes\ , Drugs\, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (2020) and author of Popular Movemen ts in Autocracies (2012). Trejo has published in top political scienc e journals and received several prestigious awards\, including the Gabriel Almond and Mancur Olson Awards from APSA.

His current research foc uses on transitional justice\, indigenous resistance to narco rule\, and t he dynamics of local violence in Mexico. He is a regular contributor to El País and Animal Político.

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