Our Programs in Progress
Human Rights Encyclopedia (2008)
L’Institut Magna Carta - sur base de son expérience et des recherches qui ont été conduite dans la création du site Internet sur les droits de l'homme Human Rights Network International mais aussi de l'expérience pratique de ses directeurs exécutifs - a été chargé de prendre la direction de ce projet.
The Human Rights Encyclopedia, developed by the Magna Carta Institute partnering with the University of Utah, is a comprehensive, internet-based resource for factual, academic, and current information on international human rights.
It is a means for the global human rights community to quickly and easily find expertly researched, updated material regarding their area of interest.
The Human Rights Encyclopedia is a component of the online Human Rights Portal of the Human Experience Coalition, collaborating with the Digital Universe Foundation and ManyOne Networks. It will work in conjunction with two other elements intending to provide human rights organizations with a common and interconnected, internet-based communication platform for finding authoritative information, information sharing, recruiting, and activism.
The Magna Carta Institute was asked to take on a leading role in this project due to the extensive research that has been done in connection with Human Rights Network International and the practical experience of its Faculty Directors.
Partners
University of Utah, Human Experience Coalition, Digital Universe Foundation et ManyOne Networks.
Funding
Human Experience Coalition
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The Global Challenges of International Terrorism and the Rule of Law : reflections and discussions on the EU-US relationship in the fight against terrorism (2008-2009)
Magna Carta is the research institute leader of the Consortium that won a highly competitive European Commission’s grant to conduct a transatlantic research program on counter-terrorism policy. The goal of this international research is to outline a coherent and global transatlantic human rights counter-terrorism model. Thanks to an international and interdisciplinary Consortium, gathering lawyers, political analysts, philosophers, practitioners, academics and researchers, from European, American and international institutions, the research will offer concrete and useful results for the future of transatlantic cooperation in the fight against terrorism and more specifically on “Preventing terrorism and ensuring human rights” and “Judging terrorism and the rule of law”.
Partners
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna), the Center for Law and Security of New York University (New York), the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte of the University of Vienna (Vienna), the Centre d'étude et de recherche en droit international of the Université Paris I Sorbonne (Paris).
Funding
European Commission
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ATLAS - Armed Conflicts, Peacekeeping and Transitional Justice : Law as Solution (2007-2011)
Magna Carta is one of the Consortium’s members that won a highly competitive 7th research program competition grant to conduct a 4-year research on humanitarian law. The objective of this project is to determine how the European Union can contribute to the promotion of international human rights law and international humanitarian law during times of conflict.
Partners
The Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), the Collège de France (France), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (United-Kingdom), the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (Spain), the University of Bucharest (Romania).
Funding
European Commission – 7th Framework Programme
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Algeria Project : Judiciary training on international anti-terrorism framework (2007-2008)
The COTER initiated a training scheme for professional judges on the fight against the terrorism and the protection of human rights. Thanks to the support of the Swedish Ministry of foreign affairs and in partnership with the International Legal Assistance Consortium and the United Nations Bureau on Drugs and Criminality, Magna Carta was appointed to organize the entire training program, including both academic and logistic aspects. The training sessions will consist of two seminars in Algeria, followed by a workshop for Algerian and European judges in Brussels. In that context, Magna Carta is working on new texts books and didactic CD ROMs containing human rights or counter-terrorism related treaties as well as academic papers and notes in both French and Arabic. This program also inspired the publication of the collection of essays edited by HENNEBEL, Ludovic, VANDERMEERSCH, Damien, Juger le terrorisme dans l’Etat de droit, Brussels, coll. « Magna Carta », Bruylant, 2007.
Partners
The International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC - Sweden), the Union International des Avocats (UIA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC - Vienna).
Funding
The Committee against Terrorism of the European Union (COTER), Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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JANUS Project : Joint Academics for New Understanding of Shifting International Law and Relations (2007-2011)
This research project appraises the evolution of international law and international relations, aiming at studying this shift while casting a glance, like the mythical Janus, on both the past and the future. This project intends to exhume the bases, to include and understand them in the context of development within the realms of politics and international law. Project JANUS seeks to include and comprehend the fundamental contemporary changes of the traditional internationalist paradigm. For this reason, research relates in particular to international governance, transnational justice and the assumption of a new jus gentium.
Funding
The Magna Carta Institute with the sopport of the Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Loterie nationale.
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Scholarly promotion of human rights in Latin America (2006-2009)
This research program aims at promoting the American Convention of Human Rights in Latin America. It focuses on publications of academic work on the inter-American system of human rights that helps to make known the inter-American Court and Commission’s work. Magna Carta also intends to build an academic institutional network specializing in inter-American human rights in the Region in order to lead collective research projects and to organize trainings on the inter-American system.
Magna Carta supported several scientific research projects and training programs for members of non-governmental organizations and contributed to the drafting of university research programs with Latin-American partners. These issues have already inspired several publications: HENNEBEL, Ludovic, La Convention Américiane des droits de l'homme, Brussels, coll. "Publications de l’Institut International des Droits de l’Homme René Cassin", Bruylant, 2007; HENNEBEL, Ludovic, MARTINI (DE), Siro, PEIDRO, Vanessa, La Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, (2008).
Partners
Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Direitos Humanos (São Paulo).
Financing
The Magna Carta Institute is self-funded on this project.
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Nos principales références (copie 1)
Réalisations
Project : Good Governance in the Maghreb Region (2006-2007)
Morocco Project : Judiciary training on international anti-terrorism framework (2006-2007)
Développer la connaissance du droit international des droits de l’homme au niveau global (2002-2004)
Programmes en cours
Human Rights Encyclopedia (2008)
The Global Challenges of International Terrorism and the Rule of Law : reflections and discussions on the EU-US relationship in the fight against terrorism (2008-2009)
ATLAS - Armed Conflicts, Peacekeeping and Transitional Justice : Law as Solution (2007-2011)
Algeria Project : Judiciary training on international anti-terrorism framework (2007-2008)
JANUS Project : Joint Academics for New Understanding of Shifting International Law and Relations (2008-2011)
Promotion scientifique des droits de l’homme en Amérique Latine (2006-2009)