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Gender

13 06 2017

Codie Bell’s quest to transform universities

By |2017-10-18T06:33:57+11:0013 June 2017|Categories: Gender, Human Rights, Restorative Community, Restorative Justice, Restorative Practice|Tags: , |

There is a growing problem of ‘rape culture’ on the campus of the Australian National University. There have been new dimensions of this problem in recent years such as a Facebook group titled ‘ANU Stalkerspace’ which has been the particularly public host of some unpleasant public discussion about women and minorities. The Rape Crisis Centre […]

29 06 2016

Restorative Justice and Democracy

By |2017-10-18T06:33:59+11:0029 June 2016|Categories: Democracy, Gender, Governance, Restorative Justice, Restorative Practice|Tags: , , , , , |

I recently published in Raisons Politiques an article entitled: ‘Deliberative Republican Hybridity through Restorative Justice’ (in French and English).

It argues for a hybrid between deliberative democracy and Philip Pettit’s ideal of contestatory democracy in which contestatory democracy is contested by deliberative democracy. Drawing on the experience with democracy of India and other countries, the […]

25 05 2016

Why are wars never fought by women as a group to defend women’s rights?

By |2017-10-18T06:33:59+11:0025 May 2016|Categories: Gender, War|Tags: , , , , , |

Wars get fought for many reasons. Some are to grab territory. Others are to kill an enemy before they kill you. Some are for one part of a country to separate from the rest, often because the separatist region feels that it is marginalized and dominated. Others are for a group with a particular political […]