Publications

Remarks by David L. Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights Program, at the conference on Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans: External Influence and Local Drivers held in Skopje, Macedonia on February 22, 2017.

Buddhist Scholar Bikkhu Bodhi prepared an anthology interpreting the curriculum based on the Pali Cannon, which has been presented to Buddhist clergy in Sri Lanka and to Buddhist religious leaders, officials, and seminary educators in Myanmar.

At a series of workshops at the American University in Cairo, the Program developed a curriculum on Project and Organizational Development for NGOs and CBOs in English and in Arabic. The curriculum was used to help build the project and organizational development capacity of more than 175 community based organizations from throughout Darfur.

This regional consultation, which took place in San José, Costa Rica on November 19- 20, 2016, was convened by the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, the Inter-American Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights, the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Rica, and the Human Rights Institute of the National University of La Plate in partnership with Columbia University and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian law and Human Rights, for the purpse of engaging human rights experts with a focus on Latin America to identify opportunities and generate innovative ideas to timporove the functioning and deepen the impact of the UN human rights treaty bodies, and to promote synergies with the Inter-American Human Rights System.