موجز: لدعم حقوق الانسان بين الشعب الإسرائيلي، لا نحتاج إلى مخاطبة المعتقدات السياسية والشواغل الأمنية للجمهور فقط، ولكن أيضا مخاطبة النقد الأكثر أهمية لحركة حقوق الإنسان من أنها لا تستجيب إلى المعتقدات الدينية والقيم التقليدية.
The new debate should be organised around concrete issues such as neglect, denial and marginalisation, which people on social margins of the world are facing on a daily basis. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Powers and Human Rights.
With our Indian collaborators we embarked on a creative campaign to defend the integrity of a process that had provided a platform for the informed views of some of the most marginalised rural people in India. It was not a comfortable experience for either of us.
True names have existed for millennia and can be traced through many cultural histories. What is the relevance of this process of correctly naming to practices of empowerment?
Instead of viewing India’s role in global human rights from a foreign policy perspective, it is also important to examine whether India offers any lessons on human rights for other states by providing an alternative to the dominant discourse on rights. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate
While doing virtually nothing to fix the real problems of money in politics, the government is trying to introduce a new law that will shut down vast swathes of political commentary and scrutiny for a whole year before general elections.
Authority is a capacity to inspire trust. This is what marks a participative inquiry apart from the liberal models which consult others, but never fully recognise, nor invite, their intelligence.
The discussion that follows will highlight the distinction between power and authority, and how power which privileges cooperation rather than domination might generate new forms of authority commensurable to a society that must work together.
We are the ones we have been waiting for. The importance of openness lies in creating spaces and times outside the dominant architecture and temporality of the past and present in order to create new alliances and subjectivities based on a common dignity.
If collaborative science or participatory budgeting does not incorporate some openness to calamity and creativity, to the world pushing back, then it will not have the effect of generating ‘real life’ experience and redistributing authority.
