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Why have war and coercion dominated the political realm in the Sudans, a decade after South Sudan’s independence and fifteen years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement? This new book by CGHR Co-Director Sharath Srinivasan explains the tragic role of international peacemaking in reproducing violence and political...

All at CGHR were immensely saddened to learn over the weekend of the sudden passing of Professor Christof Heyns. A thoughtful scholar of the African human rights system, an incredibly popular teacher of the next many generations of human rights activists, and a universally-respected and impactful UN human rights expert...

CGHR Associate Dr Sarah Nouwen (Deputy Director at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law) and CGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan have collaborated with former CGHR Associate Dr Laura James on finalising an edited book, Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan published by Oxford University Press. Sudan...

Dr Eliza Garnsey's new book, entitled The Justice of Visual Art: Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition , has recently been published with Cambridge University Press. The book demonstrates that there are aesthetic and creative ways to pursue transitional justice — ways which have the capacity to address...