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Erin Baines
Benjamin Perrin
Paulette Regan
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Global Focus: On the Edges of Conflict
Benjamin Perrin, Brian Job
Armed conflict in the early 21st century tends to be asymmetrical and protracted, fought by an array of armed groups on both physical and political battlefields, and causing disproportionate suffering and death to civilians. The Edges of Conflict Project is working to better understand the nature of such conflict and to improve respect for the rule of law in complex security environments.
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Global Focus: Her name is Beatrice, my name is Lara
Lara Rosenoff
"Her Name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara: experiences in witnessing, internal displacement and conflict in Northern Uganda after 23 years of war" is a documentary project examining a documentary’s potentials and pitfalls in critical 'witnessing,' while exploring how voices from those living in the centre of conflict can challenge dominant media and humanitarian narratives. A photo- and video-based exhibition will be featured in the Liu Institute's lobby starting 14 January 2010.
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A better plan to stop migrant smuggling
Benjamin Perrin
Faculty Associate Benjamin Perrin writes about migrant smuggling and the Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act (Bill C-4), which was re-introduced in Parliament in June 2011 and includes amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
“Bill C-4 contains a maligned provision that would automatically detain migrants who are part of a group arrival designated by the Minister for a year without access to review, unless they are released by the Minister or they are granted refugee status earlier,” he writes.
Perrin suggests that Bill C-4 should be modified so that smuggled migrants should receive an initial review within 48 hours, with further reviews every three or six months thereafter; and so that minors should be exempted from the new regulations, and handled under the current rules that related to their age group.
November 14, 2011
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Activists Support U.S. Move Against Uganda Rebels
By Michele Kelemen
Human rights groups don’t usually cheer military forays. But they have offered loud applause for the Obama administration’s decision to send 100 military advisers to help African nations fight the notorious rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Invisible Children has built a grassroots movement in the U.S. demanding more focus on the LRA. They welcomed President Obama’s offer to send in the special forces troops. But the military campaign worries Erin Baines, an assistant professor at the Liu Institute for global issues at UBC.
“A large proportion of the LRA itself are children who have been abducted from their homes,” Baines said. “So they are the front line of many of these battles and they are the first to be killed because they have the least knowledge of how to hide and protect and protect themselves.”
October 25, 2011
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Generation Return: Art and Justice Tour
April 18, 2013
Artist, Writer and Global Agitator Anida Yoeu Ali will present and discuss her works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience.
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Generation Return: Artist Talk with Anida Yoeu Ali
April 18, 2013
Artist, Writer and Global Agitator Anida Yoeu Ali will present and discuss her works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience.
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