In Search of a Political Theory of Assembly
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
Critical and collaborative praxis research for justice and solidarity
The Latest
04/12/24
CRC Research Seminar: E-Governance and Smart Policing: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance?
On 5th November 2024, our Postdoctoral Scholar Dr Ashwin Varghese was invited to present at the Crime Research Centre Research Seminar at the University of Sussex.
Unpacking the gendered nature of police work in India (2024)
This paper examines the gendered aspects of police work in India, focusing on the various roles women undertake in police stations.
About CGHR
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) is an outward focused multi-disciplinary research endeavour strongly committed to advancing thought and practice within areas of critical importance to global justice and human well-being in the twenty-first century.
CGHR is co-directed by Dr Ella McPherson, Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology at the Department of Sociology, and Professor Sharath Srinivasan, David and Elaine Potter Professor in International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
The Centre’s mission is to be widely valued as a dynamic, innovative and collaborative research network with proven expertise, producing high quality scholarly outputs. As such, the Centre is particularly interested in building bridges between the academy, policymakers and practitioners, and does so through core research themes as well as through innovative spin-out projects.
Events
Friday Lecture: ‘Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine’ –…
28/02/2025
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Berkowitz/Finley Lecture Hall
World of the Right – Radical Conservatism and Global Order
05/03/2025
SG2, Alison Richard Building University of Cambridge
Digital Media, Voice and Power
Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative…
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa (2022)
In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Human Rights in the Digital Age
CGHR’s Human Rights in the Digital Age theme addresses the emergent and rapidly evolving changes wrought to human rights practices and norms by the use of digital technologies. With respect to practices, this includes human rights fact-finding and advocacy; with respect to norms, this includes human rights related to communication, information, expression, privacy, assembly and association.
12/09/24
Key Trends and Issues at the Intersection of Communication and Human Rights
Dr Ella McPherson served as Co-Chair of the International Communication Association’s 74th conference theme, ‘Communication and Global Human Rights’.
30/08/24
Sharing New Research on the Impacts of AI in Eastern Africa
How are the innovations and disruptions brought about by Artificial Intelligence (AI), being deployed, experienced, shaped and resisted in the Eastern African region?
17/06/24
Guest Lecture: Studying AI in Comparative Global Context
AI is everywhere. However, are experiences of AI the same around the globe? This lecture, by Dr Ashwin Varghese, asks: if experiences vary, what accounts for these variations?
Justice and Accountability
Executive Summary— Unlawful Killings in Africa
A report prepared by the CGHR research team for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and…
Edited by CGHR’s Sarah M.H. Nouwen, Laura M. James and Sharath Srinivasan, this Proceedings of the British Academy volume brings together economic, legal, anthropological and political science perspectives…
Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence Against Women and Girls across Time and Spaces
25/11/2019
Newnham College, Lucia Windsor Room
Violence, Conflict and Peacebuilding
World of the Right – Radical Conservatism and Global Order
05/03/2025
SG2, Alison Richard Building University of Cambridge
Book Presentation Dr Aditi Malik: Playing with Fire – Parties and Political Violence in…
18/03/2025
S1 Alison Richard Building University of Cambridge
CGHR Panel Discussion on Sudan’s Tragedy: Popular Revolution to War, Famine, Genocide
28/01/2025
S1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
Students at CGHR
10/02/24
Provocations: Solidarity Platforms Research Group
With a small team of student research volunteers, CGHR is carrying out Solidarity Platforms Project this term, based on CGHR’s Provocations: Tech Design and Human Rights project.
03/02/24
Updates from the CGHR Student Group
The Student Group are working on a research project assessing the impact of AI technologies on the surveillance and policing of protest groups between 2019 and 2023.
02/02/24
Updates from the Digital Verification Corps (DVC)
For a new project relating to state violence against journalists covering protests, the DVC has conducted remote open-source research across eighteen different countries.