Advisory board at a glance

Aftermath of Paris massacre: Let’s seek justice not war Nov. 17, 2015 | 12:19 AM Chibli Mallat| The Daily Star An act of war, or a crime against humanity? The declaration of French President François Hollande has set the tone – the Paris massacre is an “acte de guerre.” As in the case of Sept. 11, […]

On the Middle East and nonviolence, an interview with Prof. Manuela Lenzen Prof Mallat gave the key speech at  the conference on law and religion, organised by Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF), Bielefeld University, on 15 July 2015. The lecture can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KuaQjRq3N4 On the occasion, a long interview with Prof Lenzen on his latest […]

Impunity and violence are interrelated in a cycle that has to be broken: Unless leaders are held accountable for their actions, violence will continue.   A Palestinian woman carries a portrait of a relative who was killed during the Sabra and Shatila massacre.   2015/10/02  Issue: 25  Page: 11 The Arab Weekly Samar Kadi Beirut – Thirty-three […]

    Chibli Mallat Commentary, Aug. 04, 2015 | 12:16 AM We know where ISIS comes from, but we don’t know what it is, other than resembling as close as possible a political monster. There has been a fair amount of analysis and books on the self-declared caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the New […]

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) cordially invites you to a book launch and public lecture: Chibli Mallat will be presenting his new book, Philosophy of Nonviolence, Revolution, Constitutionalism and Justice beyond the Middle East. Chibli Mallat is a lawyer and a law professor. He serves as Presidential Professor of Law and […]

PR- Beirut, 12 December 2014. RN Chairman Chibli Mallat moved in the past month on two Middle East fronts. In Najaf in Iraq, he was the special host of the University of Kufa, where he delivered a lecture on his work on the enlightened legacy of Najaf scholars, and on nonviolence. He went to Najaf for […]

Establish violence-free zones in Syria By Sadek Jalal al-Azm, Chibli Mallat   Oct. 03, 2014 | 12:09 AM The eyes of the world are on Syria and Iraq. This is a time for carefully considered options. As part of the discussion over the most appropriate strategy, we propose to establish one or more exclusion zones […]

  RN board member Edward Mortimer and RN Chairman Chibli Mallat were active on SriLanka, Iraq, and Libya. SriLanka On 11 August, Mortimer published an oped in the Independent on the continued plight of the Tamils under a vindictive dictatorship http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/hidden-from-view-sri-lanka-is-trampling-over-the-rights-of-its-tamil-population-9662359.html Iraq On 14 August, Mallat appeared on a three hour-long talkshow Kalam ennas, LBCI, with anchorman […]

RN in world news Mortimer on Intervention, Mallat on women as vanguard of nonviolence Beirut, 8 June 2014- Board members Edward Mortimer and Chibli Mallat weighed in on the world debate over Syria. In an oped published in the Nahar, Edward Mortimer summed up the difficulties of military intervention by reference to two central texts […]

RN Presentation: At the Yale law school’s annual Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium, consecrated to Human Rights in the Streets and held in New Haven on March 27-28, 2014, RN Board Member Edward Mortimer addressed the panel on ‘Intervention’. In this contribution to our site, which will also appear in a shortened version […]

A leading thinker in the Arab world also recognized as a courageous defender of human rights, free speech, and intellectual freedom. Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at Damascus University, he is a worldwide respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the […]

Martín Böhmer is a Professor of Law at Universidad de San Andrés and at University of Buenos Aires. He serves as the Director for the Justice sector at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), and is Director Emeritus of the Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ). He was […]

Prof. John Borneman has conducted fieldwork in Germany and Central Europe, and is currently engaged in research in Lebanon and Syria. He has completed projects on the symbolic forms of political identification, the relation of the state to everyday life, forms of justice and accountability, and on regime change. Currently he is working on an […]

Prof. Ishac Diwan is a leading international development economist with a formidable record of applied experience with the World Bank spanning more than two decades and encompassing direction of successful, ambitious initiatives most notably around issues of economic development related to commercial agriculture and natural resources, employment for youth, and protection of basic services. World […]

Prof. John Donohue epitomises far more than the meeting of East and West. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he was so much at home in Baghdad and Beirut that Lebanese and Iraqis from all hues and cries considered him very much one of their own. His scholarship is one of a kind: few if any […]

A sustained, courageous, and consistent voice for human rights, Lebanese self-determination, and the rejection of fascism and sectarianism in Lebanon and the region, Mr. Eddé is a key figure of the Cedar Revolution of 2005 that started through nonviolence the ongoing Middle East human rights upheaval. ‘Amid’ (Dean in Arabic) of the Lebanese National Bloc, […]

Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, her interests include the rights of women; economic, social and cultural rights; and the rights of indigenous peoples. From 2000-2003, Deena was a teaching fellow with the Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic at Yale […]

A prominent Bahraini publisher, writer, and human rights activist noted for his relentless support for non-sectarian moderation and enlightened thinking on harmonizing Islamic principles with contemporary democracy. Dr. al-Jamri was a founding member in 2002 of the leading Bahraini daily Al Wasat and serves as Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief. The author of two books in […]

Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Professor Kahn teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory and philosophy. Before coming to Yale in 1985, he clerked […]

Chibli Mallat is a law professor and a practicing attorney, and an active defender of human rights, constitutional law, and judicial accountability. He is Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Utah and EU Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at Université Saint Joseph in Lebanon. He was the 2011 Custodian of the Two […]