Bringing together the multidisciplinary expertise in the School to provide a national and international collaborative centre for the support, promotion and dissemination of academic and policy work in human rights.
Thursday 23 February 2012
In June 2008, the School was awarded a grant of $144,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar on “Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Violence.” The series sought to answer two overarching and inter-related questions: (1) what turns neighbour against neighbour? and (2) how do neighbours live together again after atrocity?
Par Engstrom is Lecturer in Human Rights at the Human Rights Consortium. Par's current research interests focuses on regional human rights institutions both comparatively and with a particular reference to the Inter-American human rights system. Further research interests include the relationship between human rights and democratization; judicialization of politics; transitional justice; the international relations of the Americas; human rights, humanitarianism, and foreign policy; theories of international relations, particularly relating to international law and institutions; and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human rights.
In the shadow of the ICC: Colombia and international criminal justice
Human Rights Consortium
Report of the expert conference examining the nature and dynamics of the role of the International Criminal Court in the ongoing investigation and prosecution of atrocious crimes committed in Colombia. Convened by the Human Rights Consortium, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the ...
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The Refugee Law Initiative is the only academic centre in the UK focused on international refugee law. The RLI leads, supports and promotes cutting-edge and high-impact research, policy and training projects, and carries out consultancy work on refugee law and the protection of refugees.
