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Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR)

 

Publications in 2021

  • Srinivasan, S. (2021). When Peace Kills Politics: International intervention and unending wars in the Sudans (London: Hurst & Co; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)

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  • Riha, J., Abreu Lopes, C., Ibrahim, N., Srinivasan, S. : 'Media and Digital Technologies for Mixed Methods Research in Public Health Emergencies Such as COVID-19: Lessons Learned From Using Interactive Radio–SMS for Social Research in Somalia' in Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2021

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Publications in 2020

  • Nouwen, S.M.H., James, L. and Srinivasan, S. (eds) : Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond (Proceedings of the British Academy; Oxford University Press, 2020)

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  • Srinivasan S., & Nouwen, S.M.H. : ‘Introduction: Peace and Peacemaking in Sudan and South Sudan’, in Nouwen, SMH, L James and S Srinivasan (eds) (2020). Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond (Proceedings of the British Academy; Oxford University Press, 2020)

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  • Wamai, N. : 'International Relations and International Criminal Court' in Oxford Handbook on Kenyan Politics Oxford, OUP. 

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  • Srinivasan, S. and Abreu Lopes, C. : 'Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa' in International Journal of Communication, Volume 14, 2020

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  • Brisset-Foucault, F. : Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda, (Ohio University Press, 2020)

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Publications in 2019

  • Srinivasan, S. and Diepeveen, S. : 'Communication Technology and African Politics' in Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2019 

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  • Srinivasan, S. Diepeveen, S. and Karekwaivanane, G. : 'Rethinking Publics in Africa in a Digital Age'. Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol 13(1), 2019

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  • Srinivasan S., Karekwaivanane G. & S. Diepeveen (eds.) (2019), ‘Special Issue: Publics in Africa in a digital age’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol 13(1), 2019

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  • McPherson, E. Guenette Thornton, I. and Mahmoudi, M. : 'Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding'. In A. Koenig, S. Dubberley and D. Murray, eds. Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019 

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Publications in 2018

  • Srinivasan, S. and Diepeveen, S. : ‘The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa’. The International Journal of Press/Politics 23, no. 3:289-412, 2018

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  • McPherson, E. : ‘Risk and the Pluralism of Digital Human Rights Fact-Finding and Advocacy,’ in New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, edited by M. K. Land and J. D. Aronson Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018

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  • Sindre, Gyda M. : 'From Secessionism to Regionalism: Intra-organizational Conflict and Ideological Moderation within Armed Secessionist Movements'. Political Geography 64 (May): 23-32, 2018

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Publications in 2017

  • Probert, T. : 'Vehicles for accountability or cloaks of impunity? How can national commissions of inquiry achieve accountability for violations of the right to life?' IJR Policy Brief Number 25, May 2017

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  • McPherson, E. and Probert, T. : 'Special Procedures in the Digital Age'. The United Nations Special Procedures System, edited by A. Nolan, R. Freedman and T. Murphy.Boston: Brill, 2017.

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  • Heyns, C. and Probert, T. : ‘Casting Fresh Light on the Supreme Right: The African Commission’s General Comment No.3 on the right to life’ in Tiyanjana Maluwa et al. Pursuit of a Brave New World: Essays in Honour of John Dugard (Brill, 2017) 

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  • Heyns, C. Probert, T. and Borden, T. :‘The Right to Life and the Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty’ De Guzman, M et al (eds.) Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honour of William A. Schabas (OUP, 2017)  

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  • Probert, T. :‘The Role of the UN Human Rights Council Special Procedures in Protecting the Right to Life in Armed Conflicts’ in Dan Kuwali & Frans Viljoen (eds.) By all Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Mass Atrocities in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press, 2017) 

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  • McPherson, E. : 'Social Media and Human Rights Advocacy.'  Pp. 279-88 in The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights, edited by H. Tumber and S. Waisbord.  London, UK: Routledge, 2017 

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  • Devon, E. and Curtis, A. :  'South Africa’s Peacemaking Efforts in Africa: Ideas, Interests and Influence', in Kudrat Virk and Ade Adebajo (eds), South Africa’s Foreign Policy Twenty Years after the end of Apartheid,IB Tauris, 2017. 
  • Devon, E. and Curtis, A. : ‘Burundi: Recent History’, in  Africa South of the Sahara 2017 Abingdon, Routledge, 2017.  
  • Sindre Gyda, M. :  'Indonesia: Dynamics of Regime Change' Ch. 20 in Burnell, Peter, Lise Rakner and Vicky Randall (eds.) Politics in the Developing World 5th ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 

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Publications in 2016

  • Garnsey, E. : 'Framing human dignity: visual jurisprudence at South Africa’s Constitutional Court', Australian Journal of Human Rights, AJHR 22-2: Special issue on Utopias and human rights, November 2016.

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  • McPherson, E. : 'Source credibility as “information subsidy”: Strategies for successful NGO journalism at Mexican human rights NGOs'. Journal of Human Rights 15(3): 330-346, 2016 (Special issue on “Human Rights in the News,” edited by John C. Pollock and Morton Winston).

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  • Brisset-Foucoult, F. : 'La cité radiophonique. Démocratie de chantier, domination technocratique et patriotisme bureaucratique en Ouganda' ('The Radio Polity. "Construction site" democracy, technocratic domination, and bureaucratic patriotism in Uganda'), Sociétés politiques comparées, 40, October - December, 2016

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  • Srinivasan, S. and Abreu Lopes, C. : ‘Africa’s voices versus big data? The value of citizen engagement through interactive radio’. In O. Hemer & T. Tufte (eds.), Voice & Matter: Communication, development and the cultural return. Göteborg, SE: Nordicom, 2016

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  • Fraser, A. : ‘The political economy of sponsored call-in radio in Zambia’, PiMA Working Paper #5, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 2016.

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  • Fraser, A. : 'Let’s Be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the agenda of a sponsored call-in radio programme', PiMA Working Paper #6, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 2016.

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  • Mitullah, W. Mudhai, O.F. and Mwangi, S. : 'Who Participates? Audience and Participants in Interactive Shows', PiMA Working Paper #7, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 2016.

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  • Srinivasan, S. and Diepeveen, S. : 'Competing imaginaries of audiences and the making of the ‘audience-public’ on interactive radio in Kenya and Zambia', PiMA Working Paper #10, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 2016

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  • Nouwen, S. and Kendall, S. : 'Speaking of Legacy: Toward an Ethos of Modesty at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda', The American Journal of International Law 110, (2): pp. 212-232, 2016, 2016.

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  • Sindre, G.M. and Söderström, J. : 'Understanding armed groups and party politics', Civil Wars 18, (2): pp. 109-117, 2016.

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  • Sindre, G. M. : 'In whose interests? Former rebel parties and ex-combatant interest group mobilization in Aceh and East Timor', Civil Wars 18 (2): 192-213, 2016.

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  • Srinivasan, S. : 'Civil society as counter-power: Rethinking international support toward tackling conflict and non-violent politics in Africa'. In P. Aall, & C. Crocker, (Eds), Minding the Gap: African conflict management in a time of change. Waterloo, Canada: CIGI - Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2016.

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Publications in 2015

  • McPherson, E. : 'Do Photographs Help? A Review of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Exhibition at Photographers’ Gallery.' The Photographic Review, Issue 82, 52-53, 2015.

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  • McPherson, E. : 'Digital Human Rights Reporting by Civilian Witnesses: Surmounting the Verification Barrier'. In R.A. Lind (ed.), Produsing Theory 2.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in a Digital World (Volume 2), pp. 193–209. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2015.

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  • Alexander, A. and McPherson, E. : 'Social Media Data Is Not Directly Representative of Facts Offline.' In Policy Challenges Briefing: Data Science, p.8. Cambridge: Center for Science and Policy, Cambridge Big Data Strategic Research Initiative, 2015. 

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  • McPherson, E. : 'ICTs and Human Rights Practice.' Cambridge: CGHR, 2015.

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  • Heyns, C. and Probert, T. : 'The Power of Information Communication Technologies for Human Rights.' Human Rights Monitor, International Service for Human Rights, 7 July 2015.

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  • Heyns, C. : 'Use of Information and Communications Technologies to Secure the Right to Life', Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to the 29th session of UN Human Rights Council, 24 April 2015.

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  • Srinivasan, S. and Lopes, C.A. : “Africa’s Voices”. In Policy Challenges Briefing: Data Science, p.10. Cambridge: Center for Science and Policy, Cambridge Big Data Strategic Research Initiative, 2015.

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  • Curtis, D. : 'Development Assistance and the Lasting Legacies of Rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda', Third World Quarterly, 36:7, pp. 1365–1381, 2015.

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  • Probert, T. : 'The New African Commission General Comment on the Right to Life is an Important Step Forward', Just Security, 2015.

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  • Heyns, C. and Probert, T. : 'The right to life and the progressive abolition of the death penalty', in Ivan Šimonović (ed), Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends and Perspectives, New York: United Nations, 2015.

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  • Nouwen, S. and Werner, W.G. : 'Monopolizing Global Justice: International Criminal Law as Challenge to Human Diversity’, Journal of International Criminal Justice, 13, (1): pp. 157-176, 2015.

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Publications in 2014

  • Probert, T. : 'How the Death Penalty is Slowly Weakening its Grip on Africa.' African Arguments, 9 October 2014.

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  • Srinivasan, S. : ‘Negotiating violence: Sudan’s peacemakers and the war in Darfur’, African Affairs, 113 (450): pp. 24-44 

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