Centre of Governance and Human Rights
| Created: | 2009-11-05 12:06 |
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| Institution: | Department of Politics and International Studies |
| Description: | The Centre of Governance and Human Rights draws together experts, practitioners and policymakers from Cambridge University and far beyond to think critically and innovatively about pressing governance and human rights issues throughout the world. CG+HR organises a range of research seminars and public events throughout the year, tied to our emerging research priorities. Many are recorded and accessible from SMS or our website. |
Media items
This collection contains 15 media items.
Media items
A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights
David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), in conversation with Dr Andy Tucker (Deputy Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Sat 27 Mar 2010
About the Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 29 Mar 2010
Dr Laurens Bakker, 'State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia'
Audio of presentation by Dr Bakker as part of Centre of Governance and Human Rights Research Group (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/cghr/research_research_group.html).
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 13 Dec 2010
Lecture by Francis Deng at Launch of Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 18 November 2009
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights was launched by the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) on 18 November 2009. An Inaugural Lecture was delivered by...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 29 Mar 2010
Preventing Violent Attacks on Education in Afghanistan: Considering the Role of Community-Based Schools
Dr Burde's paper drew on observational data of community-based schools in Afghanistan to examine the types of violence that affects education in Afghanistan and to explore the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Tue 23 Nov 2010
SMS Uprising: How mobiles are changing the public sphere in Africa
A seminar discussion with the editor of (Sokari Ekine) and a contributor to (Ken Banks) a new edited book – SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa (Fahamu, 2009) – which is the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 4 Feb 2010
Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements in Exile
On the eve of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR) hosted a roundtable discussion at...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 11 Feb 2010
Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements in Exile
On the eve of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR) hosted a roundtable discussion at...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 22 Feb 2010
What Explains Diverging Paths of Genocidal Violence? Evidence from Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Chad and Senegal
Dr Scott Straus discusses his recent work on a comparative study of different trajectories of violence in civil war. The study focuses empirically on relatively recent (during the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Tue 25 May 2010
Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom
An event co-organised by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR), Cambridge, The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and CRASSH, in which refugee academics...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 8 Jun 2010
Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?
The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa....
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 7 Dec 2010
A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics
Thomas Tufte discusses how civic action and participation in social change in Tanzania is being effected by access to new, more interactive, civil society created media platforms.
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 24 Oct 2011
Reordering South African Townships
Wednesday 24 November 2010, Senior Common Room, POLIS
Dr Laurent Fourchard (Researcher, Sciences Po)
The aim of this paper was to understand how people have tried to produce...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Fri 18 Feb 2011
State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict
Critically analyses the international obligations on three key states – the hiring state, the home state and the host state of a PMSC – and identifies the circumstances in which...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 13 Oct 2011
The Integration of Human Rights into Official Development Assistance: towards reorienting South Korea's ODA policy
Monday 24 January 2011, Senior Common Room, POLIS
Ms Soo Hee Choi (Visiting Associate at CGHR and International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division,...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Wed 9 Feb 2011
