Democracy Reporting International (DRI) has just published the main articles contributed to “Democracy Standards in an Islamic Context“, a conference in Tripoli organized by DRI with Right to Nonviolence. The conference was co-chaired by Chibli Mallat and Duncan Pickard during Mallat’s working visit to Libya in June 2013. The proceedings include four substantive studies, written […]
Leading Lebanese daily an-Nahar prominently featured an exchange between RN Chairman Chibli Mallat, and Sitt Rabab al-Sadr, the renowned civil society leader and sister of the Shi’i leader Musa al-Sadr. In her address published as op-ed, she reflects on her three-decade work against violence, focusing on violence and the key role of education, particularly for […]
Farea Al-Muslimi, a member of RN’s constitutional advocate network, presented a paper at a virtual seminar 06 August 2013 on his views of the work of the Rights and Freedoms Committee of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC), a process underway in Yemen. Al-Muslimi has been increasingly appreciated worldwide for his articulate stance against the use […]
Reading Egypt. In “Le renversement de Morsi” in the August 2013 issue of L’Orient Littéraire, RN Chairman Chibli Mallat argues that the end of Morsi’s rule —in a similar way to that of Mubarak— was primarily due to the overwhelming size of nonviolent street protests, and only secondarily to the opportunistic intervention of the Egyptian Army. Warning […]
RN’s network of MENA Constitutional Advocates is an impressive and active group of young lawyers, activists, and journalists invited to participate in a year-long program “Informing the Constitutional Moment” funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Recent publications by members of the network include the following: Judge Yussef Auf in an op-ed “Transition in Egypt: […]
Following the success of its 2013 conference in Tunis focused on integrating Islamic/Middle Eastern law in a 21st century constitution, Right to Nonviolence (RN) continues its role as a leader in constitutionalism in the MENA region as co-chair of “International Standards in an Islamic Context”, a one-day conference 23 June 2013 in Tripoli, Libya. Organized […]
