Legal Pluralism and Governance: Interview with Livia Holden
We have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations […]
D’exode en exode: Le conflit Syrien comme révélateur de la vulnérabilité des réfugiés palestiniens
Le conflit de Syrie a depuis 2011 sévèrement affecté les quelques 600’000 réfugiés palestiniens résidant alors dans ce pays, causant
‘B2Gold has to go!’ Rancho Grande’s Struggle against a Canadian open pit gold mine in Northern Nicaragua
In October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed
On Harm and History
I want to begin with Julia´s history, an indigenous woman from the South of Colombia who currently lives in one
The Limits of Truth Telling: Victim-Centrism in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
Truth commissions can be seen, not only as venues for addressing the worst abuses of states in a search for
Judicial means and political ends: Transitional justice and political trials
There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than
‘Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan’ – Katarzyna Grabska talks about her book
Stories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first
Recent Publications in Human Rights #HumanRights
We then feature another one of our recent thematic lists on Human Rights. However this time the list is a
Human Dignity and Glory – The future of human rights discourse?
Stephen Hopgood has recently argued in The Endtimes of Human Rights [i] that human rights discourse has fallen into decay
LGBT Advocacy in Northern Ireland
In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio