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- Simon
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- Robins
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- Position/Title
- Senior Research Fellow
- Area of expertise
Critical approaches to transitional justice
Human rights in and after conflict
Participatory research approaches
Humanitarian protection
- Policy Area
As above.
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- Recent Publications
- Robins, Simon (2015) Mapping a Future for Transitional Justice by Learning from Its Past, Int. Journal of Transitional Justice, 2015.
- Gready, Paul and Simon Robins (2014) From Transitional to Transformative Justice: A New Agenda for Practice. Int. Journal of Transitional Justice, 8 (3): 339-361.
- Robins, Simon (2014) Book Review: Jessica Auchter, The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations, London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory.
- Robins, Simon; Iosif Kovras and Anna Vallianatou (2014) Addressing Migrant Bodies on Europe’s Southern Frontier: An agenda for research and practice. Briefing Paper. (A summary version can be found here.)
- Robins, Simon (2014) Constructing Meaning from Disappearance: Local Memorialisation of the Missing in Nepal. International Journal of Conflict and Violence.
- Robins, S. (2013) Toward Victim-centered Transitional Justice: Nepal and Timor-Leste, Middle East Institute: Middle East-Asia Project (MAP) series on “Pathways to Transitional Justice in the Arab World — Reflections on the Asia Pacific Experience.”
- Robins, S. (2013) Families of the Missing: A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice, New York / London: Routledge Glasshouse. This is the book of my PhD work with families in Nepal and Timor-Leste.
- Robins, S. (2013) Book Review: Jenny Edkins, Missing: Persons and Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Social & Legal Studies 22(1) 133–146.
- Robins, S. (2013) ‘An empirical approach to post-conflict legitimacy: Victims’ needs and the everyday‘, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 7 (1).
- Robins, S and Ram Kumar Bhandari (2012), ‘From victims to actors: Mobilising victims to drive transitional justice process’, NEFAD: Kathmandu.This is the report of a participatory action research project funded by the Berghof Foundation and conducted in collaboration with NEFAD, the National Network of Families of the Disappeared and Missing, Nepal. It aims to understand how victims of conflict can become agents in addressing the legacies of violence. The following documents are available:
- The research report
- A summary of the research and the NEFAD Plan of Action (English and Nepali)
- Conflict Victims’ Committee, Bardiya: Building a Family Association: Lessons learned (Nepali)
- Robins, S. (2012), Book review: Gender in Transitional Justice. Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ruth Stanley. Hampshire, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 297. �57.00 / $85.00. Historical Justice and Memory Network.
- Robins, S. (2012) ‘Constructing meaning from disappearance: Local memorialisation in post-conflict Nepal‘, Conference paper presented at ISA 2012, San Diego, 1-3 April 2012.
- Robins, S. (2012) ‘Transitional justice as an elite discourse: Human rights practice between the global and the local in post-conflict Nepal‘, Critical Asian Studies, 44(1).
- Robins, S. (2012) ‘Challenging the therapeutic ethic: A victim-centred evaluation of transitional justice process in Timor-Leste‘, Int. Journal of Transitional Justice, 2012, 1-23.
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