Litigating the Right to Health
Start: Jan. 2008 (Current)
Keywords: Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting
Geography: Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India
How do different models of ownership over natural resources affect poverty levels and social conflicts in Latin America? Who stand to gain and who stand to lose from nationalizing natural resources? And what do "natural resources" really mean for different groups in society?
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How is "energy" conceived and understood in Latin American politics and society? A new project explores recent decades a new wave of conflicts focused on questions of ownership, services, choice and sale of energy resources have marred the region's political stability and development and gained international notoriety and concern.
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Afghans question the liberal peace, the democratization and the development projects that have set the course for Afghanistan's transition from war to peace.
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This project has two aims: (i) to develop an analytical framework useful for policy assessments of the impact of various transitional justice mechanisms on violence reduction and peacebuilding more generally, and (ii) through applying this theoretical framework to four case studies (Chile, Peru, Rwanda and Angola) assess how different approaches to transitional justice - including the absence of such mechanisms - have affected peacebuilding in the aftermath of violent conflict.
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Flammable Societies
Debates on the measurement of global poverty
