Canada’s recent resolution to label the Indian Residential School system as genocide (and not cultural genocide) is not a mere alteration of words, it is a significant and consequential change.
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The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
A secret plan to destabilise the new democratic government reveals the failed ambitions of the apartheid state security apparatus and confirms what is known about the brutality of the period.
Indigenous people and communities are not monolithic. How they react to and deal with tragedy will be different. Acknowledging that will help us all heal.
Secret burials are the stuff of gothic fiction, but these gothic events actually happened to Indigenous children.
The MMIWG Inquiry two years later: What’s changed and what still needs to be done?
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis could represent an opportunity to live up to all the recent talk of reconciliation in Canada.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
The RCMP have long been responsible for violence against Indigenous people.
British Columbia recently introduced groundbreaking legislation to implement the rights of Indigenous Peoples. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this historic achievement.
It’s the 12th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Canada has yet to implement this declaration even though the TRC says the road to reconciliation needs to start here.
As students and faculty start a new academic year, it’s a good time to highlight the barriers to Indigenizing the campus and the importance of Indigenous voices on campus.
Political scientists concern themselves with ideas of democracy. Now that Canada’s PM has accepted the finding of genocide, this changes how and what political scientists need to discuss.
The Timol ruling will not only have implications for crimes under apartheid, but also put the focus on torture within the South African Police Service.
In an attempt to respond to the TRC’s calls to action, academic disciplines such as mathematics can contribute through community-led partnerships with Indigenous peoples.
Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa’s Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain “unfinished business”.
The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
University “Indigenization” efforts using Massive Open Online Courses promise to reach wide audiences. They also raise critical questions about how to embody Indigenous ways of knowing and relating.
No project for reconciliation can succeed unless the federal and provincial governments roll back their power and create space for Indigenous control over their own self-determining futures.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics and Associate Professor in Political Science, Public Policy and Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Independent conflict and social justice practitioner/researcher. Currently Senior Staff Associate in the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town
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Coordinator, Educational Technologies, Thompson Rivers University
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Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of History and Global Human Rights, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies, University of Lethbridge
