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The Age of Impunity: How Countervailing Power Can Rebuild Accountability
David Miliband, SM ’90 proposes an accountability agenda to counter an “age of impunity” amidst the rise of autocracy and authoritarian regimes around the globe.

Précis
Miliband, President/CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and a graduate of the MIT Department of Political Science, says “countervailing power” can be orchestrated to protect human rights, increase accountability, and safeguard democracy from the rise of autocracy. He calls for action by a coalition of government leaders, business, and civil society, noting that "the coming age of impunity is only inevitable if we let it be so."

Text of the lecture: https://www.rescue.org/press-release/...
Story at MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2021/david-milib...

Excerpt from MIT News Story
Former British foreign minister David Miliband SM ’90 offers a sobering warning about human rights and democracy while delivering a special lecture — and outlines how we might confront the emerging “age of impunity,” in which authoritarian governments and even democracies are increasingly flouting the rule of law.

Miliband delivered this talk after he received the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. This year’s award recognizes Miliband’s long and distinguished political career in the United Kingdom and his leadership in addressing the global refugee crisis. The award was founded and endowed by Robert A. Muh ’59 and his wife Berit, and is granted by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (MIT SHASS). Muh is a life member emeritus of the MIT Corporation, and founded the award to honor “extraordinary contributions” in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Melissa Nobles, the Kenin Sahin Dean of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT, introduced Muh at the event.

Miliband served as U.K. foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010; he was also a member of Parliament in Britain from 2001 to 2013 and served as secretary of state for the environment. Miliband received his undergraduate degree from Oxford University in 1987 and his master’s from MIT’s Department of Political Science in 1990 as a Kennedy Scholar. He was also a 2010 Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies. For the last several years, Miliband has been serving as president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), based in New York.