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
CGHR Practitioner Series: Dr Imogen Parsons, Lead Humanitarian Advisor at DFID
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.
