Monday 26th March has been confirmed as the date for a lunchtime briefing on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and Sustaining Peace. The briefing will present the project’s work to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on emerging issues in the field of sustaining peace and ESCRs, in addition to presenting experiences from the field and suggestions for further addressing further sustaining peace in the work of the Committee. Lancaster University will be represented by the project’s lead, Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley, as well as Professor Sigrun Skogly. Other speakers include Karol Balfe, Head of Tackling Violence and Building Peace at Christian Aid Ireland. This briefing is kindly organised by partner organisations FES Geneva and QUNO. Full details to follow.
Author: Luke Graham
Update on ‘Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Sustaining Peace Project: Recent Activities
- The team have been busy working on the Knowledge Exchange publication and we would like to extend an invitation out to anyone who has interesting case study material that they could contribute to the publication on any of the themes that were discussed at the conference. Please send these to escr@lancaster.ac.uk We aim to launch this booklet at an event in the beginning of the New Year. Please keep an eye on the website for details (but we will also be sending out information as soon as it is confirmed).
- We are planning to participate in the Collaborative Research Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Toronto in June 2018, with the aim of continuing the knowledge exchange between practitioners and academia and broadening these discussions ‘over the pond’ with a wider range of actors. If anyone is interested in knowing more please see the website.
- Amanda, Hannah (FES) and Anna (swisspeace) took part in an expert seminar in Geneva this month on “Approaching New Realities: Human Rights in Conflict Situations – Expanding the Scope of the Human Rights Council”, sponsored by the German Institute for Human Rights, Forum Menschenrechte, Geneva Academy and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The podcast by Dr. Amanda Cahill-Ripley will be uploaded shortly.
- We have approached several highly-esteemed peer-reviewed journals regarding hosting a Special Edition. Once we have heard from the editors in chief we will send out further details. At this point we would be grateful for expressions of interest to participate in this special issue. We are hoping to have a good balance of academic and policy/practitioner submissions.
- We would like to update the website with any relevant publications that you have been working on. Please send details of any publications (policy; academic; practice notes) or any relevant events that you would like to advertise to escr@lancaster.ac.uk We are also happy to advertise such events via our Twitter account @escrsp
We hope in the future to secure further funding for undertaking research into the themes raised by the project to date and any new relevant themes that participants raise. Please do get in touch if you would be interested in further research collaboration.