Right to Nonviolence affirms its strong support for the “Call for an Inclusive Process of Constitutional Drafting”, issued 30 May 2013 by the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) and a coalition of civil society groups, in response to the recently issued draft electoral law for the formation of the Constitutional Assembly. Calling on all […]
RN Advisory Board – Carlos Eddé, Head of the Lebanese National Bloc commented on the ongoing intransigence in Lebanon among key parties to the electoral law discussion in an op-ed 18 May 2013 in L’Orient Le Jour, “Le Bouc du Rabbin”, and in Now Lebanon, “The Rabbi’s Ram”. Calling Lebanon not a democracy but a […]
RN’s MENA Constitutional Network participated in a 3-hour virtual discussion 21 May 2013 moderated by Judge Yussef Auf who prepared an extended analysis, “Al thawra wal qada’ fi Misr: al muwajaha al hatmiyya” (The Judiciary and the Revolution: the Inevitable Confrontation), as background for the session. The paper provides historical context and a brief overview […]
RN Chairman Chibli Mallat in an op-ed for prominent Lebanese daily An Nahar 9 April 2013 argues that a policy of ‘dissociation’ from the Syrian conflict by the Lebanese government is insufficient to avoid the spillover from this and other conflicts. Advising a proactive stance by the new government in exporting a model of nonviolence, […]
Zahra’ Langhi, co-founder of Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP), led a seminar 7 April 2013 for RN’s MENA constitutional advocates–by Skype and across continents–on the role of women in public life in Libya. The seminar is one of a series of discussions, initiated during a conference in Tunis this past January, for the program […]
RN Associate Mara Revkin and RN Constitutional Advocate Yussef Auf, in an article for the global edition of The Atlantic, provide a summary analysis of the virtual absence of national security in Egypt and the attendant rise of violent vigilante justice predominantly carried out by hard line Islamist parties through groups they designate “popular committees”. […]
