Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Authoritarian Sudan

Massoud, Mark Fathi

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00426.x

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“…Because of its commitment to the human-rights-based approach, the UN works globally to sensitize disempowered populations to their human rights for the purpose of creating ‘the mental structure necessary for liberation by educating the oppressed to be aware of human rights and to use the language of law and rights to make claims against their government’ (Massoud, 2011: 9, emphasis mine). However, the UNHCR Peace Education Programs and UNHCR practice in the Buduburam refugee camp are at odds with other rights-based development and education projects.…”

Section: Group’s Power In Relation To the Relevant Authority Shapes Amentioning

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Rethinking multicultural jurisdictions

Sagy¹

2018

Ethnicities

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This article is about the rights of disempowered individuals within autonomous cultural groups. For more than a decade, multiculturalism theorists have been struggling to find a suitable balance between the policies they advocate and the need to protect the vulnerable members of the groups they seek to empower. One of the most convincing and innovative solutions to emerge has been Ayelet Sachar’s model of transformative accommodations (TA). Yet, the main argument presented in this article (based on an ethnographic study) is that this model is unfeasible due to the rule of conservation of power. This claim is illustrated by two case studies: the case of the Beit Ya’acov Primary School for Girls in Emmanuel in the Israeli Occupied Territories and the case of the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. The article concludes by suggesting that multiculturalists have yet to produce a satisfying response to what seems to be the principal challenge to the policy they advocate.

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Section: Group’s Power In Relation To the Relevant Authority Shapes Amentioning

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Rethinking multicultural jurisdictions

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2018

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“…Instead of defining and measuring human rights, law and society scholars often take a more critical approach on how ostensibly universal ideas such as rights and justice acquire specific meanings in local contexts. Massoud (2011), notably, reveals how human rights is the latest idea to promote Western, democratic-style governance, yet the idea serves elites rather than survivors of violence. His study of Sudan charts how international organizations attempted to empower refugees by teaching them about their individual rights under international human rights treaties.…”

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“…The qualitative case study approach I adopted in Colombia enabled a grounded examination of transitional justice, which helped illuminate how the idea is both understood and utilized by individuals who are engaged in political activity (Massoud 2011, 9). The data include fifty interviews and dozens of organizational documents gathered in Colombia in January and February 2010.…”

Section: An Inquiry Into Transitional Justice In Colombiamentioning

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“We Don't Believe in Transitional Justice:” Peace and the Politics of Legal Ideas in Colombia

Rowen¹

2017

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This article draws on law and society theories on the circulation of legal ideas to explain the instrumentalization of transitional justice in Colombia. Most scholarship explains transitional justice as a theoretical framework or as a set of instruments that helps redress mass violence. In contrast, this study reveals that the idea serves as a placeholder for different political actors to promote their respective interests. Drawing on over fifty interviews, the study suggests that the power of transitional justice lies in its malleability, which is both its strength and its weakness, as those with different political agendas can appropriate the idea in contradictory ways. The findings emphasize that understanding transitional justice requires a turn from abstract analyses that either take the idea for granted or try to define its meaning toward examining how people on the ground understand the idea, and how they translate those understandings into political action.

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“…In Sudan, for instance, a range of key actors across distinct historical periods have proposed legal solutions to the state's ills. These include, most notably, colonial administrators, postcolonial authoritarian state leaders, and international aid activists carrying banners of humanitarianism (Massoud 2011, 2013).…”

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Ideals and Practices in the Rule of Law: An Essay on Legal Politics

Massoud¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

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This essay responds to the three commentators in the symposium on my book, Law's Fragile State, by describing the sociolegal study of the rule of law as an investigation into both a set of ideals (the rule of law as a normative question) and a set of practices (the rule of law as an empirical question). Studying the rule of law involves understanding the contingent nature of its ideals as well as investigating the actual work that lawyers, judges, state officials, aid workers, activists, and others have done in specific contexts to promote legal remedies to social or political ills. These overlapping layers of the study of the rule of law-ideals and practices, normative and empiricalprovide a sociolegal framework for understanding the successes and failures of legal work and, ultimately, how citizens experience state power in democratic and nondemocratic societies alike.If law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then [our] situation is full of promise and [we] enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.Plato (

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Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Authoritarian Sudan

Cited by 59 publications

References 39 publications

Rethinking multicultural jurisdictions

Rethinking multicultural jurisdictions

“We Don't Believe in Transitional Justice:” Peace and the Politics of Legal Ideas in Colombia

Ideals and Practices in the Rule of Law: An Essay on Legal Politics

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