Abstract: President Trump's defeat in the U.S elections is generating reactions equivalent to those that have been documented in countries undergoing processes of democratic transition and transitional justice in the aftermath of authoritarian régimes. This includes widespread calls that Trump and other high level officials be held accountable for their role in promoting serious violations of human rights. Key issues along these lines include their handling of the COVID 19 pandemic and the promotion of racial, ethnic, and religious violence and intolerance. This talk will explore the role that issues like these played in Trump's defeat, and the implications of the elections for the U.S and globally.
Short bio: Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, JD is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice at National Taiwan University, where he is being hosted by the Department of Psychology and the College of Law. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of Dayton School of Law, and was previously a Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Director of Research and Advocacy at Hope Border Institute (El Paso, Texas), and inaugural director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton. He is lead author of Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia(Brill 2016/Haymarket books 2017). He is currently working on a new book exploring the global impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on human rights in general, and on the rights of migrants and indigenous peoples in particular.