Centre Events
23 November
Charting A New Horizon: UN Peacekeeping Round-Table
With special guest Izumi Nakamitsu, Director of Policy Evaluation and Training, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Time: 2.00 – 4.00 pm,
Location: Mills Meeting Room, 4 th floor of the Chancelry Building, ANU (Building No. 10)
See flyer here.
See policy document here.
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23-24 November
Feminist Internationalisms:Celebrating feminist engagements with international law and politics
Centre for International Governance and Justice Workshop
APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre at The Australian National University
More information can be found here.
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Photo Gallery
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View photos from recent CIGJ events here.
Associated Events
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29 October
Jeremy Farrell and Sue Harris Rimmer are presenting at the Assisting Disrupted States event on Thursday 29 October from 930-1230, hosted by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, AIIA Conference Centre, Level 1, Stephen House, 32 Thesiger Court, Deakin, ACT
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Eminent Lecturer Series, November 2009: Women and War
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Dr Bina D'Costa, Professor Ann Tickner and Professor Penny Andrews will deliver a series of lectures on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as the effect of conflict on women. Click here for more information.
Freilich Foundation Presents:
The Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights 2009
Mary Kostakidis
Member of the National Human Rights Consultation Committee &
Chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation
The Protection of Human Rights in Australia- a way Forward
Tuesday Nov 24, 5.30-6.30pm See flyer here.
The Finkel Theatre John Curtin School of Medical Research
Garran road, ANU building 131
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News
18 November 2009
SBY's soft power for unfathomable Papua
In his remarkable Harvard speech on Sept. 29 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) vowed to make the 21st century the century of soft power.
Contiue reading Budi Hernawan's article in the Jakarta Post here.
13 October 2009
The risks of engaging in political transitions
Hardliners are still in office in Zimbabwe: Jo Ford considers policy risks and practical measures for Australian aid engagement. Click here to read.
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8 October 2009
The Truth Hurts
Dr Susan Harris Rimmer delivered a paper titled 'The Truth Hurts: Learnings for the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the CAVR process in Timor Leste" at the National Europe Centre Roundtable.
Click here to view PowerPoint presentation.
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7 October 2009
Melbourne man's shooting lost in a Papuan Puzzle
Australia and Indonesia must give Drew Grant's case top priority Buddi Hernawan writes in the Canberra Times. Click here for full article.
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25 September 2009
Institutionalizing the Protection of Human Rights
Hilary Charlesworth discusses the challenging issues that arise when trying to institutionalize the protection of human rights on Public Ethics Radio.
Click here to listen.
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13 August 2009
Morten Pedersen opinion piece "Slow Journey to Opening Eyes" in The Canberra Times
The sentencing of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to a further 18 months' house arrest has undermined whatever little hope remained internationally that the military would allow meaningful democratic change after the elections next year, prompting renewed calls for sanctions to punish the regime. Continue reading.
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13 August 2009
Centre Director Professor Hilary Charlesworth elected to Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law.
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2 July 2009
John Braithwaite interviewed for Lateline Business story on Madoff sentence highlights corporate crime perceptions.
The 150-year jail term given to fraudster Bernard Madoff has again highlighted how tough the American justice system can be on corporate criminals and also again highlighted the perception corporate criminals get an easy ride in Australia.
View story here.
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14 May
Inside Story:Grand Plans on Social Policy
Two major reports on violence against women and children show a growing level of commitment by the federal government. Now it’s time to take the next steps, writes Susan Harris Rimmer. Click here to read the piece in Inside Story.
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12 May
Doctoral candidate Gabrielle Simm interviewed in the ANU Reporter
Peacekeeping authorities place blanket bans on sexual conduct between soldiers and locals, but are these prohibitions effective? Organisations like the UN might need to face up to human nature and the complex reality of sex and conflict. Click here for full text.
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17 April
Hilary Charlesworth and Susan Harris Rimmer on why Australia should engage with the Durban Review Conference
Click here to read their piece in Australian Policy Online.
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11 April
Jo Ford's opinion piece in the Johannesburg Weekender
In his piece Jo writes about African states destroying their credibility by pouring scorn on international institutions they helped create. Click here for the article.
Have your say! - Contact us if you have been part of a peacekeeping operation.
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Recent Publications
Susan Harris Rimmer Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor (Routledge, 2010)
Jolyon Ford & Kyla Tienhaara, Too Little, Too Late?International Oversight of Contract Negotiations in Post-Conflict Liberia ' CIGJ Issues Paper No.12
Jolyon Ford & Joel Negin, Policy Brief: Rebuilding Zimbabwe: Australia's Role in Supporting the Transition Lowy Institute for International Policy 2009
Bu V.E Wilson, 'The exception becomes the norm in Timor-Leste: the draft national security laws and the continuing role of the Joint Command' CIGJ Issues Paper No.11
 J. Farrall, United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law Now available in paperback
Louise Wiuff Moe, 'Negotiating Political Legitimacy: the Case of State Formation in Post-conflict Somaliland' CIGJ Issues Paper No. 10
Susan Harris Rimmer reviews The Human Rights Enterprise in Australia and Internationally by Peter Bailey - Alternative Law Journal Vol 34(2) 2009 - pp 139-140
 Susan Harris Rimmer 'Is ASIO a good judge of character?' Alternative Law Journal Vol 34(2) 2009 - pp 71-142 [pdf available]
S. Harris Rimmer, 'Beloved Madam: The Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court' in William Binchy (ed) Timor Leste: Challenges for Justice and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Past. Dublin: Clarus Press, 2009: pp 427-473. Copies can be ordered here.
 S. Harris Rimmer, 'Comment: Examining the character of Australian citizens' (2009) Public Law Review 20(2): 95-100.[Pdf available]
 B. Bowden, H. Charlesworth & J. Farrall (eds.), The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). [Pdf excerpt available] More information available at Cambridge University Press
 M.L Burgis Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009) More information available at Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
J. Braithwaite Restorative Justice for Banks Through Negative Licensing CIGJ Issues Paper No.9
S. Harris Rimmer 'Reconceiving Refugees and Internationally Displaced Persons as Transitional Justice Actors' CIGJ Issues Paper No.8
H. Charlesworth 2009, ' Women's Human Rights in the State-Rebuilding Process' in Facets and Practices of State-Building, eds Julia Raue & Patrick Sutter Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, pp 249-262
J. Ford, 'Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe: Some Reflections on the Longer Term role of the UN and International Actors' CIGJ Issues Paper No. 7
B.D'Costa & J.Ford Terminology Matters: Statebuilding, Nationbuilding and Peacebuilding CIGJ Issues Paper No.6
J. Ford, M. du Plessis, 2009, ‘Transitional Justice: A Truth Commission forZimbabwe?', International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 58, no.1, pp 73-117.
B. Wilson, 'Timor-Leste: the curious case of the fake policemen', East Timor Law Journal, 2009, no 2.
B. Wilson, 'Smoke and Mirrors: institutionalising Fragility in the Policia Nacional Timor-Leste,' in Democratic governance in Timor-Leste: reconciling the local and national,' ed. D. Mearns, 2008
B. D'Costa, 'Strangers within our Borders: Human In(security) in South Asia,' CIGJ Issues Paper No. 5
A. Byrnes, H. Charlesworth & G. McKinnon, Bills of Rights in Australia: history, politics and law, 2008
H. Charlesworth, 'International Law: A view from the Antipodes,' in Regards d'une génération sur le Droit International, ed. E. Jouannet, H. Ruiz Fabri & J-M. Sorel, 2008
M. Burgis, Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes, ANU PhD Thesis
J. Braithwaite,
V. Braithwaite & L. Dunn, Peacebuilding Compared Working Paper No. 1- Papua and Indonesia
July 2008
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