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Tag Archives: war and peace

Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies by Nasia Hadjigeorgiou

In our latest article in the New Publication series for Rights! Nasia Hadjigeorgiou discusses her latest publication – Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies (Hart Publishing, 2020).

August 6, 2020 in Deeper Read, New Publication, NEW!.

Heritage “Vandalism” and The Echoes of Silenced Memories

CRISTIANO GIANOLLA and PEDRO ALMEIDA This article was originally published as part of the Alice Comments series authored by the Epistemologies of the South Research Programme team, in ALICE News. While the world witnesses a widespread uprising against racism, the role of memory and its public representation have come to the centre of the dispute. The homicide…

July 2, 2020 in NEW!, Quick Read, Speakers' corner.

Choosing Our Words With Care

VERONIQUE LERCH 

Continuing our series of short think pieces on the theme ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Véronique Lerch discusses the use of war metaphors during the pandemic.

May 8, 2020 in Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19, NEW!, Quick Read.

Hunger as a Weapon of War

VITO TODESCHINI

Starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance in contemporary conflicts

June 25, 2018 in Agora, Deeper Read.

The safeguard of journalist source protection in times of war

SIMON LEVETT

The journalist and source relationship and the right to receive information

June 6, 2018 in Deeper Read, Speakers' corner.

Human rights through the lens: Locating the dignity of the vulnerable subjects of atrocity photographs

TAIF ALKHUDARY

Understanding the relationship between dignity and vulnerability through the eye of the camera

May 21, 2018 in Beginnings, Deeper Read.

Interview with Prof. Manfred Nowak

ANGELA MELCHIORRE

We have to be more self-confident, skilful and proactive to defend human rights in times of ‘evil forces’.

August 28, 2017 in Deeper Read, Notebook.

The Colombian Peace Deal: War is dying but peace has not yet been born

JORGE ENRIQUE FORERO and SARA TUFANO

The roots of the Colombian conflict and how the Peace Agreement addresses them

November 24, 2016 in Beginnings, Deeper Read.

On Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: The Case of Wartime Male Rape

ELLEN GORRIS

Three challenges to the exclusive focus on women and girls as victims of conflict-related sexual violence

March 14, 2016 in Beginnings, Deeper Read.

Is the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2235 a positive step towards accountability in the conflict in Syria?

AURIANNE BOTTE

Assessing whether the Joint Investigative Mechanism on the use of chemical weapons in Syria could be a first step towards accountability for crimes against humanity and war crimes

January 13, 2016 in Quick Read, Speakers' corner.

Approving force without authorising it: UN Security Council resolution 2249 on the fight against ISIL

VITO TODESCHINI

The resolution gives political support to military action against ISIS, yet fails to provide States with a mandate to use force

December 7, 2015 in Quick Read, Speakers' corner.

The Second Opportunity: Education, Peacebuilding, and Transformative Justice in Colombia

SAM UNDERWOOD

The transformative capacity of conflict-sensitive education in the words of Colombian teachers, students and educationalists

November 19, 2015 in Beginnings, Deeper Read.

Respect for international legality and the renewed centrality of the United Nations: the only alternative to war

MARCO MASCIA
ANTONIO PAPISCA

Read why the main road to peace is to be walked with initiatives of real disarmament and by putting into operation the collective security system as envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations

July 21, 2015 in Agora, Quick Read.

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