City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 3)
City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 3)
The third class presents two different cases of justice campaigns: first, the 19th-century abolitionist movement promoted by the Quakers and led by the United Kingdom, which successfully ended the slave trade globally. The case explains the coalition of actors needed for the movement’s success along with the strategies and tactics undertaken over the course of the sixty-year effort.
Our second case study for this class session is Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, which was crucial to ending Joseph Kony’s 20-year-long mass abduction and abuse of Ugandan children. The group lobbied US Congress and promoted African Union, Ugandan, and Central African Republic efforts to locate the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. They created Kony 2012, a documentary film that reached 120 million viewers within just a few days and generated worldwide calls for Kony’s arrest.