Annick Pijnenburg is a new visiting PhD researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. She comes from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where she is doing her PhD under the supervision of Conny Rijken and with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen as co-supervisor. Recently, … Continue reading » “Cooperative Migration Control Policies”
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Deep Exploration on Peace and Conflict
The two-day conference “The Nature of Peace: Exploring links between the natural environment and peacebuilding in post-conflict societies” recently took place in Lund.
“This conference was organized as a final event in which the interdisciplinary research group ‘The Nature of … Continue reading » “Deep Exploration on Peace and Conflict”
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This is How We Actually Work with Human Rights
Curious about what we were up to over the year?
Every year, RWI does its best at summarising the institute’s work for each calendar year. In our Year in Review 2017 (former Annual Report), we report on our programmes in … Continue reading » “This is How We Actually Work with Human Rights”
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Challenges in International Law in the Time of Trump
A new book, “The Changing Practices of International Law,” explores the challenges of international law during a time marked by extraordinary events like Brexit, the Trump presidency, and the refugee crisis.
The book is written by RWI’s Research Director, Thomas … Continue reading » “Challenges in International Law in the Time of Trump”
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One-On-One With a PhD Researcher
Amalia Sofia is a visiting researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. She works as a PhD student and researcher at the Graduate Institute of Public Administration at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
She is currently writing the parts of … Continue reading » “One-On-One With a PhD Researcher”
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A Research Workshop on Human Rights and the Environment
A five-day research workshop under the regional human rights research initiative took place in Bangkok recently.
The workshop gathered almost twenty researchers from all over Asia. RWI researchers Radu Mares and Frank Baber, together with Mike Hayes at Mahidol … Continue reading » “A Research Workshop on Human Rights and the Environment”
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Frank Baber: The Dare That Made him a Lawyer
Frank Baber is a visiting research fellow at RWI and the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law.
Walter F. Baber holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina and the J.D. from the University … Continue reading » “Frank Baber: The Dare That Made him a Lawyer”
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You are welcome to a seminar arranged by the Pufendorf IAS ́s ASG CRISIS, organised by RWI’s Research Director, Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen, and Professor Mo Hamza at Lund University, discussing the conceptions and epistemologies of the word … Continue reading » “Conceptions and Epistemologies of “Crisis” in Regard to Disasters, Migration and Refugees”
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Richard Falk on Human Rights, Vietnam, Israel and the UN: A Life in International Law
Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. For a six year period beginning in 2008, he served as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights … Continue reading » “Richard Falk on Human Rights, Vietnam, Israel and the UN: A Life in International Law”
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