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Selected developments in human rights and democratisation during 2015: Sub-Saharan Africa
(Global Campus, 2017-01)
This brief overview of selected developments with regard to human rights and democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 paints a mixed picture of progress and challenges both at the national and regional levels. The ...
State security, securitisation and human security in Africa: The tensions, contradictions and hopes for reconciliation
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
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 ...
Intractable conflicts in Africa: The international response to the Darfur and South Sudan crises
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
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 ...
Introduction to Global Classroom on Securitisation
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
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 ...
Editorial of special focus: Securitisation and its impact on human rights and human security
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
Selected developments in human rights and democratisation during 2016: Sub-Saharan Africa
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
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 ...
From sleepwalking into surveillance societies to drifting into permanent securitisation: Mass surveillance, security and human rights in Europe
(Global Campus, 2017-12)
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 ...
Selected developments in human rights and democratisation during 2017: Sub-Saharan Africa
(Global Campus, 2018-10)
Abstract: This article reviews selected developments in human rights and
democratisation in sub-Saharan African during 2017. It discusses the
presidential elections held in Kenya, Liberia, Angola, Rwanda and Somalia/
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Freedom of religion and the securitisation of religious identity: An analysis of proposals impacting on freedom of religion following terrorist attacks in Flanders
(Global Campus, 2018-10)
This article develops an adapted, discourse theory-based framework
of securitisation theory to assess possible violations of the human right to
freedom of religion. The relevance of this framework is illustrated by ...
Citizen agency, human rights and economic development in the context of populism and new democratic leadership models in Latin America
(Global Campus, 2018-10)
This article reviews the concepts of governance and governability in
light of the emergence of new leadership models at the turn of the century and
after the 1990s in Latin America. The article reviews the challenges ...