SOAS in the media 15 Feb 2013
15 February 2013
This week Dr Phil Clark has been quoted on roving courts in Eastern Congo, SOAS radio was featured in the Metro for World Radio Day and the New Zealand High Commissioner's speech at SOAS' Pacific Island Society was also covered.
Roving Courts in Eastern Congo
IWPR – 13 Feb 2012
“Phil Clark, an expert on justice processes in the Great Lakes region at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, says the judiciary in DRC “has been able to cooperate with ABA and other external actors to try and help reform the domestic system in the way some senior juristic officials would have wanted to anyway – but in such a way as not to rock the boat in Kinshasa”.
New Zealand High Commissioner: Shared Values Driving Ever Stronger U.S.-NZ Partnership
One News Page – 13 Feb 2012
“In a speech given on Monday to the Pacific Islands Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Acting New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Mr. Rob Taylor, argued that shared values, not just shared interests, are driving the renewed strategic partnership between the United States and New Zealand.”
London University professor predicts Iran-Egypt ties will become stronger
Tehran Times – 13 Feb 2013
“Dr. Dipl. Pol. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is a reader in comparative politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London.”
World Radio Day: Helping millions worldwide through the power of radio
Metro – 13 Feb 2013
“Tonight, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London hosts a World Radio Day event, New Perspectives on Radio, sharing the insights of people on the frontline of using radio in international development.”
Press Statement issued by the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Professor Mashood Adebayo Baderin, at the end of his second mission to the Sudan
Modern Ghana – 11 Feb 2013
“Professor Mashood Adebayo Baderin was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the UN Independent Expert for the situation of human rights in the Sudan in March 2012. He is currently Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London in the United Kingdom.”
Young, middle-class - and homeless: Meet the sofa-surfer generation
Mail Online – 10 Feb 2013
“MELISSA FOY (above), 22, is a history of art graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She works as a marketing executive for a startup digital agency in Shoreditch and has been sofa-surfing since July 2012.”
"Africa's Pinochet" or the beginning of "Africa's solutions"?
Aljazeera – 9 Feb 2013
Written by Chandra Lekha Sriram: “Chandra Lekha Sriram is Professor of Law at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, and conducts research around the world on international criminal justice and transitional justice.”
