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Participedia: Responding to the Challenges of Democratic Participation

Electoral democracy is under increasing strain. In developed countries, disaffected citizens are too easily mobilized by authoritarian populists and nationalists, and electoral majorities leave exclusions, inequalities, and injustices unaddressed. In developing countries, although significant strides...

A call to Canadian Parliamentarians to take concrete measures to implement the UN Declaration...

A call to Canadian Parliamentarians to take concrete measures to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in Canadian law and policy “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

A Hippocratic Oath for Historians

Against the backdrop of some of the troubling trends that have emerged in statist construction of public human rights history, the question must be asked: What are the ethical and professional obligations of public...

The Right to Development and the Fight Against Racism

Excepts of Statement by Bonny Ibhawoh (Chair, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development) at the International Dialogue on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of People of African Descent and their communities...

Can we trust the Natives? Researchers, Indigenous Peoples, and Scholarly Authority

There is renewed debate over interpretation and authority in constructing histories of indigenous peoples. Some historians such as David Silverman have critiqued sustained collaborative approaches with indigenous communities in writing their history. They contend...

Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege in a Divided World

Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege - A commentary on Eric D. Weitz,A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019).  Eric Weitz's book A...

Public Talk: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation

By Bonny Ibhawoh Speaking on the topic: "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Re-imagining Human Rights in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding" at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden. Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Re-imagining Human...

Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire’s Court

By Bonny Ibhawoh, After 5 years in the making "Imperial Justice" is finally out with Oxford University Press (UK). This book is not simply about imperial justice and the adjudication of Empire, it is about...