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DESCRIPTION:The Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Poli
 cy welcomes Professor Sarah Federman\, School of Public and International 
 Affairs\, University of Baltimore\, for a talk about her work-in-progress 
 on the SNCF and developments in corporate responsibility for the Holocaust
 .\n\nAbstract\n\nTransitional justice employs a variety of mechanisms\, in
 cluding compensation\, apologies\, trials\, commemoration\, and truth seek
 ing to guide societies in the aftermath of massive human rights violations
 . The perpetrators are most often individuals\, rebel groups\, and governm
 ent institutions.\n\nMore infrequently\, however\, do we consider how to a
 ddress market actors. A study of the decades-long conflict over the French
  National Railways' (SNCF- Société nationale des chemins de fer français) 
 role in the Holocaust provides an opportunity to consider what happens whe
 n businesses are involved. The SNCF had a role in transporting over 75\,00
 0 Jewish deportees and others towards death camps during World War II. Aft
 er fifty-years of the SNCF storying itself as a hero in the resistance\, s
 urvivors began to challenge\, sue\, and boycott the company - saying it ne
 eded to acknowledge its role in the Holocaust as well. While debates began
  in France\, they spilled over into the United States and worked to roadbl
 ock the company's efforts to do business there up through 2017. The compan
 y responded by engaging in many transitional justice practices with mixed 
 results. The company's overlapping identities of victim\, perpetrator\, an
 d hero raise complicated issues at the intersection of corporate social re
 sponsibility and mass atrocity. \n\nThis research is based on over 120 int
 erviews (over eighty with survivors) and pro bono work with the U.S. State
  Department and other groups. \n\nAbout the speaker\n\nSarah Federman is A
 ssistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at th
 e University of Baltimore. She specializes in the role of language in conf
 lict\, post-conflict contexts and the role of market actors in mass atroci
 ty. She took up her position at University of Baltimore in 2017 after comp
 leting her doctorate at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Anal
 ysis and Resolution. Federman has also taught courses at SciencesPo Lille\
 , Grinnell College\, and the University of Malta.\n\nConsidering the inter
 section of corporate behavior and conflict draws on Federman’s decade-long
  career as a senior advertising executive. Federman negotiated with compan
 ies throughout North America\, Europe\, the Middle East\, Africa and Asia.
  Some of the companies with whom she met include\; Google\, NFL\, Viacom\,
  Expedia\, Discovery and most of the world’s largest advertising agencies.
  \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:'Aller Simple' - Corporate Accountability for Mass Atrocity: The Ca
 se of the French National Railways (SNCF)
URL:/law/channels/event/aller-simple-corporate-account
 ability-mass-atrocity-case-french-national-railways-sncf-285517
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