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We bring together multidisciplinary expertise to provide a national and international collaborative centre for the support, promotion and dissemination of academic and policy work in human rights.
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The Ecocide Project
Launched in June 2012, The Ecocide Project of the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, is a unique academic forum that provides a national focal point for leading, facilitating and promoting research into the problem of ecocide through a programme of conferences, workshops, seminars, short courses and other activities.
Groundbreaking research into the law of Ecocide will be announced on 19 July 2012 where a panel will debate Human Rights Consortium’s first research paper for The Ecocide Project entitled Ecocide is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace. Register for this event
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Dr Damien Short
Dr Damien Short is the Director of the Human Rights Consortium and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Damien’s interests include sociological and anthropological approaches to human rights, indigenous rights, the ecological crisis and human rights, reconciliation initiatives and genocide studies, with specific reference to North America and Australasia. Damien has published many articles on indigenous peoples, reconciliation and on the social construction of land rights and is an academic consultant for the Soil Association and War on Want.
What future for human rights in a non-western world?
Bennett, Simon O’Brien, Éadaoin
The countries of the global north and west that have enjoyed hegemonic preponderance in international affairs over the last two centuries are seeing their relative influence on the world stage decline in favour of rising powers of other regions. As the ability of the global north and west ...
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Special Issue of the International Journal of Human Rights: Corporate Power & Human Rights
We invite all relevant research in the field of business and human rights; particularly research that challenges the status quo in business and human rights discourse, and that seeks to identify new opportunities through the application of different academic disciplines and theoretical concepts.