2021
June 2021
COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis? 10 June 2021
May 2021
Exploring the Implications of Online Assemblies 27 May 2021
Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico 13 May 2021
March 2021
Practitioner Series: Mária Patakyová [Public Defender of Rights] 11 March 2021
February 2021
Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED] 25 February 2021
Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS] 11 February 2021
January 2021
Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch] 28 January 2021
2020
November 2020
Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary Innovations out of CGHR 26 November 2020
Tracking Disinformation in Brazil: The Amazon Fires Case 19 November 2020
October 2020
[UN]Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools 22 October 2020
July 2020
Beyond Coronavirus? 21 July 2020
February 2020
Book Launch — "Digital Witness: Using Open source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability", 27 February 2020
January 2020
"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan, 24 January 2020
2019
December 2019
Teach-out! The Freedom of (Online) Assembly and the Strike (Dr Ella McPherson, Dr Sharath Srinivasan, Arielle Bennett, Dr Michael Hamilton, Professor David Mead), 03 December 2019
Expert Workshop on the Right of Peaceful Assembly Online, 2- 3 December 2019
November 2019
Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces (panel with Dr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis), 25 November 2019
Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean? A talk with Professor Susan Marks, LSE, 22 November 2019
Digital Verification Workshop (part of the Amnesty International exhibition ‘War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality’ at Queens’ College), 19 November 2019
CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?, 06 November 2019
October 2019
Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africa’s Digital Revolution: Power to the People, 23 October 2019
Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality, 18 October 2019
May 2019
CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today, 1 May 2019
March 2019
CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices, 24 March 2019
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch, 6 March 2019
February 2019
CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War, 26 February 2019
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, 20 February 2019
'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi. A talk with Dr. Duncan Omanga, 13 February 2019
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar. A talk with Professor Ian Holliday, 5 February 2019
January 2019
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International, 23 January 2019
2018
October 2018
Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds, 24 October 2018
Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR), 24 October 2018
Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus, 23 October 2018
June 2018
Digital Verification Summit 2018 hosted by CGHR and Amnesty International, 26-29 June 2018
May 2018
Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action, 03 May 2018
April 2018
Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias, 30 April 2018
Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space, 23 April 2018
March 2018
Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March), 17 March 2018
Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service, 14 March 2018
February 2018
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices, 28 February 2018
CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, Director, JUSTICE, 14 February 2018
January 2018
CGHR Practitioner Series: with Alix Dunn, Director, The Engine Room, 31 January 2018
Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies: Christof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria), 18 January 2018
Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A: with Arash Kamali Sarvestani, Director, 16 January 2018
2017
December 2017
The Weaponisation of Human Rights: Chase Madar, attorney, author and journalist, 01 December 2017
November 2017
Corruption as a global threat: Laurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS, 28 November 2017
CGHR Forum: Let’s Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia, 23 November 2017
CGHR Research Group: "A murdered journalist and the puncturing of a culture of impunity in Burkina Faso: the pursuit of justice for Norbert Zongo": Dr Thomas Probert (CGHR), 13 November 2017
What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly: Njoki Wamai (CGHR), Patrick Mutahi, Kamau Wairuri (both University of Edinburgh), 08 November 2017
June 2017
Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict: Maksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council, 13 June 2017
CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs: Sharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, 08 June 2017
May 2017
CGHR Salon: Justice, Human Rights and the Changing International Order - Is Cosmopolitan Progress under Threat?:Daniel Wand, University of Leeds, 25 May 2017
Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century: Steven Livingston, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, Carr Center, Harvard University; George Washington University, 23 May 2017
Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC: Dr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, 17 May 2017
A Day in the Life: Bede Sheppard from Human Rights Watch: Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch, 05 May 2017
April 2017
CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics: Cerianne Robertson, MPhil Candidate, Department of Sociology, 27 April 2017
March 2017
Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age: Sam Dubberley (Manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps) and Alexa Koenig (Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law), 27 March 2017
Asylum Monologues, 11 March 2017
Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A, 09 March 2017
CGHR Salon: Parliamentary Engagement and the Syrian Conflict: Dr Hayley Hooper and Dr Veronika Fikfak, 09 March 2017
Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco: Dr Ali Sonay (POLIS, University of Cambridge), with Discussant Lorena Gazzotti (Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge), 06 March 2017
State Security, Torture and the Law: Dr Onder Ozkalipci (Medical Expert), Dr Carla Ferstman (REDRESS) and Dr Lutz Oette (SOAS), 02 March 2017
February 2017
CGHR Salon: Sex, Drugs and Mafioso: The risk of illicit economies in the wake of the refugee crisis: Emily Kassie (International Relations and Politics), 23 February 2017
CGHR Practitioner Series: Fiona O'Brian, Foreign Correspondent, Academic, Communications Consultant: Fiona O'Brian (foreign correspondent and academic, Kingston University), 22 February 2017
CGHR Practitioner Series: Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID, 15 February 2017
The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni: Dr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy), 14 February 2017
CGHR Open Discussion Group: Fighting Female Genital Cutting in India: Reetika Subramanian, 09 February 2017
Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios: Laurie Denyer-Willis (CGHR, Polis ), with discussant Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography), 06 February 2017
January 2017
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarion Acviser (MSF-UK): Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK), 25 January 2017
2016
December 2016
CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe: Dr Marcin Dmietana, Dr Robert Pralat and Dr Katie Dow; Reproductive Sociology Research Group, 01 December 2016
November 2016
CGHR Research Group: "Digital Media as Experimental Governance: Shifting the Accountability Paradigm in International Human Rights?: Matthew S. Mahmoudi (University of Cambridge), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Discussant, CGRH Director), 28 November 2016
Democracy in Africa: book talk: Dr Nic Cheeseman (Oxford University), 09 November 2016
October 2016
In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyean politics, African politics: Professor Richard Leakey (Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute), 25 October 2016
Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer: Kiev Ruhorahoza (film Directr), Piotr Cieplak and Dr Andrea Grant, 22 October 2016
Should human rights be apolitical? A debate: Angela Patrick, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Stephanie Palmer, Dr Sharath Srinivasan and JUlian Huppert, 17 October 2016
Whither South Sudan? Prospects for war, peace building and politics in the world's newest state: Majak D'Agoot (former Deputy Defence Minister), Peter Biar Ajak (POLIS, PhD), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Director, CGHR - Chair), 14 October 2016
Book launch: Why comrades go to war?: Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown), Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Christopher Clapham (discussant, Cambridge), 12 October 2016
June 2016
Research Group: 'Governing the slums: Lessons from Kenya and Rwanda': Thomas H. Stubbs (Department of Sociology); Discussant: Dr Graham Denyer Willis, 06 June 2016
May 2016
The Political Sociology of Human Rights: Professor Kate Nash (Goldsmiths, University of London), 31 May 2016
The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountability for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the Human Rights Commission, Toby Fisher: Toby Fisher (Barrister, Lead Counsel South African Human Rights Commission - Marikana Commission), Dr Thomas Probert (Research Consultant, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudical, summary or arbitrary executions; CGHR Research Associate), 24 May 2016
POLIS Department Seminar - Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour: Who Creates and Controls the Digital City?: Dr Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute), 19 May 2016
Book launch: 'United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics and Pragmatics': Dr Zachary D Kaufman (Harvard University); Adam Branch (respondent, Cambridge), 13 May 2016
Research Group: Convening citizen engagement:why mediation matters for audience participation in interactive broadcast shows: Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes and Sr Sharath Srinivasan (Africa's Voices; CGHR), 09 May 2016
April 2016
Social Media and politic turbulence: Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institue), 26 April 2016
March 2016
CGHR Practitioner Series: Nadia Kevlin (humanitarian aid worker) and Daniella Ritzau-Reid (humanitarian aid worker)
Decolonising higher education: from South Africa to the UK
Adam Branch (POLIS, Cambridge) and others
Citizen media research and verification: an analytical framework for human rights
Christoph Koettl, Senior Analyst, Amnesty International
The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights as a yardstick for the domestic law of the member states
Clara Rauchegger (Faculty of Law, Cambridge)
Algorithmic predictions in policing: assumptions, evaluations and accountability
Lyria Bennett Moses (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)
February 2016
CGHR Practitioner Series: The UN from within –Stephanie La Hoz Theuer, MPhil candidate Cambridge, former Associate Programme Officer, UNFCCC; Victoria Stewart-Jolley, PhD candidate, POLIS, formerly UNV, UNDP; Chair: Dr Devon Curtis, POLIS, formerly UN Staff College
Minding the Gap: African conflict management in a time of change
Funmi Olonisakin (Director, African Leadership Centre); Pamela Aall (Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation); Sharath Srinivasan (Director, CGHR)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Pamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace
Roundtable: Digital publics and counterpublics in Africa
Harri Englund (Cambridge), Florence Brisset-Foucault (Paris-Sorbonne), Duncan Omanga (Moi University, Kenya)
Inter-faith dialogue for the sake of governance and human rights
Arthur J. Keefer (Faculty of Divinity)
January 2016
CGHR Practitioner Series: Frederik Galtung, President and Co-founder, Integrity Action
Human Rights PhD Triangle conference
2015
December 2015
Enemies of the People: film screening and Q&A
Rob Lemkin
November 2015
Pax academica and the art of the (im)possible: investigating habitus, field and capital with lecturers in peace studies
Kevin Kester (Faculty of Education)
Theorising borders in an era of globalisation and securitisation
Professor David Newman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Ranking Digital Rights Project
Rebecca Mackinnon (New America)
Problematic Politics: is the notion of human rights imperialistic?
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR), Lucy Wake (Amnesty International), Prof. Stephen Hopgood (CCRI, SOAS), Dr Arath Sriprakash (Cambridge), Srishti Krishnamoorthy (Cambridge)
‘This man does not even know the meaning of peace': conflicting understandings of peace and legitimate violence in Gulu, northern Uganda
Partha Moman (University of Cambridge)
October 2015
Hiding in plain sight: Putin's wars and the power of open source
Maks Czuperski (Atlantic Council) and Elliot Higgins (Bellingcat, King's College London)
Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel peace laureates of African descent
Dr Adekeye Adebajo (Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town)
BP, Colombia, oil and ethics
Gilberto Torres and others
ICTs and human rights practice
Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert
Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola 1975-2002 - book launch
Dr Justin Pearce
June 2015
The art of justice and the justice of art
Eliza Garnsey (POLIS,University of Cambridge)
May 2015
Africa Uprising: popular protest and political change - book launch
Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College)
CGHR five-year anniversary event
Peaceland: conflict resolution and the everyday politics of international intervention - book launch
Séverine Autesserre (Columbia University)
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the civil war - book launch
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
We know them: images of the enemy and decision making in the Sudan-South Sudan secession negotiations
Dr Laura James (POLIS, University of Cambridge)
April 2015
Kashmir's Torture Trail: film screening and Q&A
Jezza Neumann
March 2015
CGHR Practitioners Series: Freddie Carver, Head of Security and Justice Group, Stabilisation Unit, DFID.
Talha Ahsan: the power of poetry and the arts in extradition campaigns
Hamja Ahsan, Julian Huppert MP, Kate Honey (Green Party)
Acephalous movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: the real basis for change?
Dr. Marta Iñiguez de Heredia (POLIS, University of Cambridge)
February 2015
CGHR Practitioners Series: Selma James, Global Women's Strike
Ujamaa: from 1960s Tanzania to 21st century Europe
Selma James, Global Women's Strike
CGHR Practitioners Series: Tech innovators working in human rights - Tanya O'Carroll, Amnesty International, and Harlo Holmes, The Guardian Project and InformaCam
The Awra Amba Experience: film screening and Q&A
Paulina Tervo and Serdar Ferit
The performative core of power and legitimacy in human rights organisations: the case of the Russell Tribunal
Dr Javier Perez Jara (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)
January 2015
CGHR Practitioners Series: James Savage, Amnesty International; Valdênia Paulino Lanfranchi, University of York; Mikdam Turkey, London South Bank University
The future of human rights in the UK
Professor Sir David Edward
2014
December 2014
Asylum Monologues
Performed by Ice and Fire (Script by Sonia Linden)
What is being targeted when women become the victims of anti-Muslim hate crime? Religion, or gender, or both?
Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)
November 2014
International mediation as the management of complexity
Professor Laurie Nathan (Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria)
Sovereignty rules! Human rights regimes and state sovereignty
Professor Laurie Nathan (Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria)
Presidential succession crises in Africa: lessons from South Africa and Namibia
Dr Ian Cooper (POLIS, University of Cambridge)
We Are Many: film screening and Q&A
Amir Amirani
The workers' movement and Egypt's long revolution: book launch
Dr Maha Abdelrahman (Centre of Development Studies, POLIS, Cambridge), Dr Anne Alexander (CRASSH, POLIS, Cambridge) and Moustafa Bassiouny (Correspondent for Al-Safir, Lebanon)
The future in mind: aspirations and forward-looking behaviour in rural Ethiopia
Kate Orkin (Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and CGHR Associate)
June 2014
Unlawful Killings in Africa: launch of a CGHR study for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Professor Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur
"Autonomous Weapons Systems: the future?" | A Public Lecture
Professor Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
May 2014
Suspending Rights: the State of Emergency in armed conflicts, legal exception and case-law practice
Federico Zumpani (University of Palermo)
Internet communication technologies guarding the truth in 2013-14 Ukraine
Anna Bilous (Associate at Beyond Violence)
20 years after the genocide in Rwanda: presentation and reflections on the judicial process
Martien Schotsmans, Hélène Morvan (RCN Justice & Démocratie) and Andrew Swindells
Human rights education and training programmes in Mexico: A cross-case analysis of practitioners' professional knowledge and practice.
Gabriela Martínez Sainz (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)
March 2014
Advocacy groups and the new political dispensation in Kenya and Zambia
Bonfas Owinga, City University London
February 2014
A staging of Wole Soyinka's 'Jero's Metamorphosis'
Goldsmith's College London in collaboration with Cardboard Citizens
CGHR Practitioner Series: David Whitty, Producer at BBC World Service Radio
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African fingerprint: an ethnographic re-visitation.
Dr Niklas Hultin (Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
January 2014
CGHR Practitioner Series: Polly Rossdale, Life After Guantánamo Project Coordinator at Reprieve
Conflict and crisis in South Sudan: roundtable
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR/POLIS, University of Cambridge), Peter Ajak (PhD Student, POLIS) and Dr Laura James (Independent Consultant and Former Economic Adviser to African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, FrontlineSMS and Means of Exchange, and an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Fellow and National Geographic Emerging Explore
2013
December 2013
When the state kills: the boundaries of state responsibilities and the right to life
Dr Thomas J.W. Probert (CGHR)
November 2013
Africa's digital communications revolution: valuing new voices in African public spheres.
Part of the King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar Series.
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge); Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR), Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (CGHR)
Framing peace: the case of conciliatory radio programming in Burundi and Uganda.
Dr William Tayeebwa (Makerere University, Uganda; CAPREx Fellow)
October 2013
Africa's Voices project seminar
Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (CGHR); Dr Dominique Chadwick (Independent Film-maker)
May 2013
CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Moncrieff, Principal Analyst for Central Africa - Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Kenyan elections of 2013: A triumph of democracy?
Dr Nic Cheeseman (University of Oxford)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Mona Sadek - International Committee of the Red Cross
Human rights and South-South development cooperation: Reflections on the "rising powers" as international development actors.
Dr Emma Mawdsley (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)
March 2013
Reflections on the Kenyan Elections - A panel discussion.
Prof. John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge), Prof. Bruce Berman (Queen's University, Ontario; Smut Visiting Research Fellow), Njoki Wamai (PhD Student, POLIS)
International Women's Day film screening: Peace unveiled.
Weeda Mehran (CGHR, University of Cambridge)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Tom Ling, Head of Impact, Innovation and Evidence - Save the Children
Demonisation's implications for Britain-Zimbabwe diplomatic relations (1997-present).
Dr Blessing-Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
February 2013
When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: Understanding the recourse to the Muslim lexicon.
Dr Francois Burgat (Director of research at the CNRS, National Centre for Scientific Research)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Gino Henry, Independent consultant in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
Increasing citizen demand for good government in Kenya.
Kelly Zhang (Stanford University)
CGHR Practitioner Series: John Morrison, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Business
Rethinking the role of ideology in atrocities.
Jonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford)
January 2013
Sudan: Regional impacts and strategic challenges.
H.E. Michel Raimboud (Former French Ambassador to Sudan)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Joanna Oyediran, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa
From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa.
Dr Adekeye Adebajo (Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa)
2012
November 2012
PhD Triangle: Research Day (Cambridge – LSE – Essex).
A right to enjoy culture in face of climate change: Implications for climate migrants.
Margaretha Wewerinke (Visiting Scholar, Lauterpract Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge)
Africa’s Voices: Reflections on a pilot study using mobile phones and interactive radio to survey public opinion in Africa.
Claudia Abreau Lopes (CGHR Post-doctoral Research Associate)
From visible to invisible: Tunisia's gendered democracy paradox.
Zoe Petkanas (POLIS PhD student)
June 2012
Rehearsing the state: The governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile.
Dr. Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)
May 2012
Demand driven democratisation – the work of the UN Democracy Fund.
Dr. Roland Rich (Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund)
The exclusion effects of two partite power sharing: the link between Sudan's Comprehenisve Peace Agreement and the insurgency in Darfur.
Dr. Louise Aalen (Senior researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway)
'Human-centred' development? Rethinking 'freedom' and 'agency'.
Professor David Chandler (Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster)
CGHR Roundtable: Crisis in the Sudans.
Dr. Sarah Nouwen (Cambridge), Ms. Benedetta De Alessi (SOAS), Dr. Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR)
Political transition in Myanmar (Burma).
Sanjay Pulipaka (Pavate Visiting Fellow, Cambridge; Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata India)
Workshop: People’s power in the struggle for freedom.
Jack DuVall (President, International Center on Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC)), Dr. Maciej Bartkowski (ICNC Senior Director), Hardy Merriman (ICNC Senior Advisor), Professor Howard Barrell and Arwa Hassan (International Development Specialist)
March 2012
CGHR Practitioner Series: Rebecca Dale, UK Department for International Development - Senior Conflict Advisor
Foucault, Governmentality and the Knowledge Economy.
Umar Salam (DPhil candidate at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University)
ExPRESSion RePRESSion: Expert panel on international efforts to protect journalists at risk
February 2012
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sorcha O'Callaghan, British Red Cross - Head of Humanitarian Policy
Human rights and practice: February 2012 crisis in the Maldives.
Dr. Farahanaz Faizal (Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International - Director of the Asia‐Pacific Programme
Why do some countries retract extraterritorial jurisdiction over issues of human rights while others step forward?
Dr. Jodie Kirshner, (University Lecturer in Corporate Law and the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law)
CGHR Practitioner Series: Tom Porteous, Human Rights Watch ‐ Deputy Program Director
2011
November 2011
Human rights and African airwaves: Mediating equality on the Chichewa Radio.
Dr. Harri Englund (University of Cambridge)
Rising China and global justice.
Prof. Ian Holliday (University of Hong Kong)
The Rule by law in Ethiopia: Rendering constitutional limits on government power nonsensical.
Adem Kassie (CGHR visiting doctoral student from University of Pretoria)
A global civics: Do we need one? What would it entail?
Dr. Hakan Altinay: Senior Fellow (Brookings Institution)
Political change and the politics of small things.
Dr. Mohammad M Mojahedi (CRASSH and CGHR Visiting Associate)
State of citizenship: Contexts and cultures of public engagement and citizen action.
Prof. Andrea Cornwall (Institute of Development Studies Sussex University)
Beyond Revolutions: The use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Convened by Dr Iginio Gagliardone and Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR), hosted by CRASSH
October 2011
Phones, foreigners and the fluctuating digital divide in Southern Mozambique.
Dr. Julie Soleil Archambault (University of Oxford)
A quiet media revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics.
Prof. Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University)
Right to information & accountability: New challenges in the digital era.
Dr P.B. Anand (Bradford University)
State control over private military & security companies in armed conflict.
Dr. Hannah Tonkin (UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
'Facts on the Ground' and the subversion of the global in Israeli activism.
Fiona Wright (PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
June 2011
Urban governance as labour rights: The case of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Dr. Matteo Rizzo (Smuts Researcher in African Studies, University of Cambridge)
May 2011
Conspiracy theories as social imaginary: The case of Blackwater in Pakistan.
Dr. Humeira Iqtidar (Lecturer in Politics, King's College London)
March 2011
Human Rights education and the Palestinian Authority Security Services.
Dr Lori Allen (University Lecturer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics and Society, Cambridge)
In the Wake of War - "Getting Out: Exit strategies and transitions".
A workshop, co-hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (POLIS), Post Conflict Post Crisis Group (PCPC Group) and CRASSH
February 2011
Human Rights and Academic Freedom.
A seminar, co-hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (POLIS), CARA and CRASSH
The comparative politics of human rights.
Dr Todd Landman (University of Essex)
Beyond "Asian Values": A reassessment of Western and Asian perspectives on human rights.
Ms Yvonne Tew (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
Climate change in Africa: Impact and adaptation.
Dr Camilla Toulmin (Director, International Institue for Environment and Development)
January 2011
The integration of human rights into official development assistance: Towards reorienting South Korea's ODA policy.
Ms Soo Hee Choi (Visiting Associate at CGHR and International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division, National Human Rights Commission of Korea)
2010
December 2010
State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia.
Dr Laurens Bakker (Radboud University Nijmegen; University of Leiden); co-author, Dr Lee Wilson (Cambridge)
November 2010
Reordering South African Townships.
Dr Laurent Fourchard (Researcher, Sciences Po)
Preventing violent attacks on education in Afghanistan: Considering the role of community-based schools.
Professor Dana Burde (Assistant Professor of international education, New York University)
October 2010
New Media Alternative Politics: Communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa.
A two-day international conference convened by CGHR and CRASSH. Convenors: Dr Anne Alexander, Sharath Srinivasan.
June 2010
Health in Africa workshop, panel on 'Health and new Information and Communication Technologies'.
Sharath Srinivasan (Chair) with contributions from Professor Geoff Walsham and Dr Mark Thompson (Judge Business School), and Isaac Holeman (FrontlineSMS:Medic)
May 2010
Domestic violence and international law.
Professor Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
What explains diverging paths of genocidal violence? Evidence from Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Chad and Senegal.
Scott Straus, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Point of no return: Kabila, Rwanda and the internal dynamics of Africa's Great War.
Dr Philip Roessler and Mr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford
April 2010
Scholars at risk: Human rights and academic freedom.
Ms Leila Alikarami (Iranian lawyer, human rights scholar and defender of women’s and children’s rights); Ms Mina Al-Lami (An Iraqi Visiting Fellow under the LSE Scholars at Risk scheme); Mr Gladston Chikwa (PhD student, University of Sheffield; formerly a lecturer in the Faculty of Reproductive Health and Family Sciences at Women's University in Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe); Chaired by Sir Martin Harris (President, Clare Hall)
March 2010
The return of the state in post-war Angola.
Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford)
Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa.
Vuyelwa Kuuya (Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge)
February 2010
SMS Uprising: How mobile communications are changing the public sphere in Africa.
Sokari Ekine (www.BlackLooks.org) and Ken Banks (www.Kiwanja.net)
Truth be Told? Debating the human rights records of exiled liberation movements in Southern Africa.
Prof Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford), Prof Saul Dubow (Sussex) and Prof Stephen Ellis (African Studies Centre, Leiden & Free University Amsterdam) with Paul Trewhela, author of Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO.
Struggles for citizenship in Africa.
Bronwen Manby (AfriMAP and Open Society Foundation)
Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Assessing Gacaca.
Dr Phil Clark (Oxford)
A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights.
David Kato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)
January 2010
Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa.
Professor John Dunn (Cambridge)
2009
November 2009
CGHR Launch, Inaugural Lecture, Managing Diversity as a Strategy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.
Dr Francis Deng (Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities)
Human rights in Zimbabwe: Past, present and future.
Senator David Coltart (National Unity Government of Zimbabwe)
