A Webinar for Survivors and Those Who Care for Them

Bystanders, Enablers and Institutional Complicity
 
We will examine the role of institutions that have allowed victims/survivors to be further abused.   Viewing this through the lens of enabling, we will explore scenarios where institutional practices have resulted in additional harm to victims/survivors by the way they have been treated during and after their actual reporting of the abuse.
An enabler is any person who knew, or should have known, of harm committed against a victim and yet, chose to protect the institution directly, or the perpetrator indirectly, thereby causing more harm to the victim. The question then becomes, how can this be prevented in the future going forward? And, how can the institution be held accountable and prevented from causing more harm to victims/survivors?


After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to join the meeting. For more information contact Paula Kaempffer, Outreach Coordinator for Restorative Justice and Abuse Prevention for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, at [email protected].

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Dr. Amos Guiora is a Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Guiora is the recipient of the University of Utah’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award. For the past 10 years, Guiora has been researching-writing-lecturing on the question of bystanders (originally in the Holocaust) resulting in his books, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust and Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults.  Professor Guiora Directs the SJ Quinney College of Law Bystander Initiative.