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Global Campus Human Rights Journal, Volume 1 No 2
(Global Campus, 2018-02)Global Campus Human Rights Journal (Human Rights Journal) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published under the auspices of the Global Campus of Human Rights as an open-access on-line journal. -
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Editorial
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This is the second issue of the first volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. It consists of three parts: a part containing articles of a general nature; a part consisting of articles all centred around a special ... -
Socio-economic development and resource redistribution as tools for conflict prevention and post-conflict peace building in fragile societies: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda
(Global Campus, 2018-02)Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a myriad of conflicts since the end of the Cold War. Many of these conflicts have lasted for long periods, leading to massive violations of human rights and creating general human suffering. ... -
Human rights violations in the ChevronTexaco case, Ecuador: Cultural genocide?
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This article discusses the Chevron contamination case in Ecuador with the aim of illustrating the scope of the human rights violations suffered by the affected indigenous communities. The contribution is inserted into a ... -
Intractable conflicts in Africa: The international response to the Darfur and South Sudan crises
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This article considers the intractable conflicts and human rights situations in Darfur, Sudan and South Sudan, respectively, against the international responses they elicited. Intractable conflicts are conflicts that have ... -
Editorial of special focus: Securitisation and its impact on human rights and human security
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Introduction to Global Classroom on Securitisation
(Global Campus, 2018-02)The Global Classroom on ‘Securitisation and the Impact on Human Rights and Democracy: Human Security in a Time of Insecurity’, organised by the Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University in Bangkok ... -
State security, securitisation and human security in Africa: The tensions, contradictions and hopes for reconciliation
(Global Campus, 2018-02)External actors have predominantly driven the securitisation agenda in Africa with the architecture traceable to Africa’s immediate post-independence past. This article theorises about a double-faced securitisation process ... -
The ‘mantra of stability’ versus human security in the post-Soviet space
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This article provides an understanding of current human security challenges in the post-Soviet space. Cognisant that such studies are rare, we hope to provide a stepping stone for further theoretical and empirical research. ... -
Securitisation versus citizenship in the Balkan states: Populist and authoritarian misuses of security threats and civic responses
(Global Campus, 2018-02)The objective of this article is threefold: to identify the main security threats in the post-conflict and (post)-crisis Balkans; to analyse the emergence and strengthening of authoritarian and far-right tendencies as both ... -
From sleepwalking into surveillance societies to drifting into permanent securitisation: Mass surveillance, security and human rights in Europe
(Global Campus, 2018-02)The migration crisis, terroristic acts on EU soil and other so-called generators of risks have been accompanied by an increasing trend towards securitisation in many European countries. After decades during which traditional ... -
The impact of securitisation on marginalised groups in the Asia Pacific: Humanising the threats to security in cases from the Philippines, Indonesia and China
(Global Campus, 2018-02)Securitisation has a disproportionate impact on marginalised groups. This article examines the impact of securitisation on four groups of people: the poor and children in Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ in the Philippines; female ... -
Securitisation in the Arab region: A new form of kinship relations?
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This article examines the repercussions of the process of securitization in the Arab region, focusing on its impact on the ‘everyday’. It demonstrates how this process negatively impacted on human rights and infringed on ... -
Securitisation and its impact on human rights in Latin America
(Global Campus, 2018-02)In Latin America, securitisation policies and their rhetoric have been part of historic challenges to the rule of law and are very much a part of current challenges in a new security agenda designed to combat complex crimes, ... -
Selected regional developments in human rights and democratisation during 2016: Rights amid turmoil in the Arab region
(Global Campus, 2018-02)In the Arab world, covering the Mashriq, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, wars and conflicts are impeding every initiative to reflect upon democratic progress or the protection of rights. Where peace prevails, ... -
Selected developments in human rights and democratisation during 2016: Sub-Saharan Africa
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This brief overview of selected developments in human rights and democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa during 2016 paints an uneven picture of progress, stagnation and retrogression at the global, regional and national ... -
Selected regional developments in human rights and democratisation during 2016: Referendums on the rise in Europe: Powerful tool of the populists or a step towards increased citizen participation in EU politics?
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This article provides an overview of different types of national referendums held in 2016 in European Union member states ranging from The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Hungary and Italy, and discusses key political and ... -
Selected regional developments in human rights and democratisation in the Asia Pacific during 2016: Been ‘down’ so long, it looks like ‘up’ from here
(Global Campus, 2018-02)This report card of protecting human rights and advancing democracy in the Asia Pacific during the year 2016 is mixed. On the one hand, the year will be remembered for the brutal actions in the Philippines war on drugs and ... -
Global Campus Human Rights Journal, Volume 1 No 1
(Global Campus, 2017-01)Global Campus Human Rights Journal (Human Rights Journal) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published under the auspices of the Global Campus of Human Rights as an open-access on-line journal.
