Dr. Neamatollah Nojumi has over twenty years of executive policy analysis on state-building, and conflict transformation, legal reforms and democratization. He is affiliated with George Mason University and number of accredited institutions. He worked as a Senior Advisor for government and non-government organizations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Southwest and Central Asia, […]
The Boundaries of Tradition: An Examination of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act
Thuto Thipe is a researcher with the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research areas include governance systems and the state’s role in constructing group identities. Her research has contributed to policy development, legislative reform and litigation. Click here to access a PDF version of this article. […]
Rebuilding Communities after Violent Conflict: Informal Justice Systems and Resource Access
Sandra F. Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science the University of Richmond. She received her A.B. in Anthropology and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in the study of property […]
HHRJ Online Symposium 2014
The Harvard Human Rights Journal is excited to launch it’s fall 2014 annual Online Symposium. Each year, we aim to host a discussion on critical and cutting edge human rights issues on our online forum, and invite scholars and practitioners to join in and contribute pieces. This year, our Online Symposium is titled: From the Informal […]
Student Book Review: Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights, and US Foreign Policy, by Mahmood Monshipouri
By Becca Donaldson, Harvard Law School, J.D. 2016 Mahmood Monshipouri’s Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East addresses an intersection of topics not often considered together in traditional international studies literature: youth, social media, human rights, and the U.S. response to the revolutions in the Middle East. His book accomplishes this by packing a broad […]
Student Book Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, by Lila Abu-Lughod
By Courtney Danae Paterson, Harvard Law School, J.D. 2016 In the era of post-9/11 politics, the weighty questions of identity, religion, and human rights center increasingly on the topics of the contested universal human rights framework, cultural relativism, and the role of Islam. Lila Abu-Lughod’s timely work, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?,[1] addresses this critical […]