Paul Gready
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 714818 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Gready |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Gready |
| FIRMA | GREADY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6353-7372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions
Universities unbound
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism
This article analyses how to build a culture of human rights in the era of populism. The UK, and the York Human Rights City initiative, provide a case study. The article draws on a human rights practice methodology, activist practices and broader social processes and practices, both in York, to analyse the potential of the ‘local’, and in particular cities, to develop a human rights culture. It argues that such a culture needs to go beyond curren…
Revisiting ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Practice’
Journal Article Revisiting ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Practice’: Introduction to the Special Collection Get access Paul Gready Paul Gready [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, huad061, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huad061 Published: 08 January 2024
Transitional Justice in Tunisia
Transitional justice from the margins
The Tunisian revolution of 2011 moved from socio-economic to political concerns, and from the margins and periphery of the South and West of the country to the centre, Tunis, driven by the slogan of “jobs, dignity and freedom”. The goal of this article is to understand the potential of using the spatially informed concept of marginalisation to reimagine transitional justice, using the “victim zone” as a case study. The Truth and Dignity Commissio…
From agency to root causes
Transformative justice has emerged as a new practice agenda for addressing structural and systemic violence in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies. This article is situated at a critical juncture: while the emerging scholarship has focussed on community agency and action, there is little as yet that has explored the social structures and relations in transition societies that are harm-generating and which constrain action. We argue tha…
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is…
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become the principle lens used by countries emerging from conflict and authoritarian rule to address the legacies of violence and serious human rights abuses. However, as transitional justice practice becomes more institutionalized with support from NGOs and funding from Western donors, questions have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms. Core elements of the paradigm have been …
Rethinking Human Rights in York as a Human Rights City
Human rights is in crisis in the UK. It lacks significant political backing and public support. This ‘insider account’ of York becoming a human rights city suggests that there is a need to rethink approaches to human rights. The article looks at the strategies adopted in the city; the annual city‐based indicator report which provides the key reference point for all local activities; and the declaration of York as a ‘human rights city’ in 2017 alo…
Rethinking civil society and transitional justice
Transitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory…
Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) seem to be grounded in assumptions of change that remain implicit and therefore often undebated. These assumptions of change play at two levels, i.e. that of organisational change and that of social change. The main emphasis of this article is on organisational change as the logical precursor to social change. Explanatory factors for the challenges in introducing HRBADs in development organiza…
First Encounters
This section of practice notes is written by early career researchers, reflecting on their first experiences of fieldwork in human rights-related settings. It has two sources of inspiration, the submission to JHRP of a practice note on this subject (Browne and Moffett’s piece) and the subsequent realization by the journal editors that although there is a growing literature on challenging fieldwork, there is little that directly addresses the chal…
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated nongovernmental organizations and large-scale funding from western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms have been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing. This article proposes a new agenda for practice, one that offers …
Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium
Chapter 1: P Gready with W Vandenhole, Introduction - What are we Trying to Change? Theories of Change in Development and Human Rights Approaches Chapter 2: H-O Sano, The drivers of human rights change in development Chapter 3: G de Beco, Human rights indicators and MDG indicators: Building a common language for human rights and development organizations Chapter 4: A Tostensen, H Stokke and S Trygged, Means, Modes and Methods: Donor Support Strat…
Introduction - Why a Special Issue on Human Rights Education (HRE) and Training
Education and training programmes have become one of the most familiar features of the contemporary global human rights landscape. Their current volume and scope would have been unimaginable even two decades ago. Programmes dedicated to human rights education (HRE) and training are now delivered by a myriad of actors and are aimed at various audiences. Some of these seek to prompt and inform legislative change or policymaking through outreach to …
Organisational Theories of Change in the Era of Organisational Cosmopolitanism
This article argues that organisational cosmopolitanism is an increasingly common characteristic of international ngos. Cosmopolitanism goes beyond international staffing, to include multi-sectoral mandates, multiple skill sets and multiple levels of working. It also challenges the orthodoxies of its parent discourses. Change within such international ngos represents a new frontier in organisational change, as its ambit and ambition extends beyon…
The Era of Transitional Justice
Introduction 1. Truth as Genre 2. From Social Truth to Rights-Based Participation 3. Justice Past 4. Justice Present 5. Speaking Truth to Reconciliation 6. Reconciliation, Relationships and the Everyday. Conclusion
Introduction - 'Responsibility to the Story
Should human rights researchers prioritize the needs and wishes of victims in their outputs and advocacy? Should different ethical norms apply to victims and perpetrators? Can innovative quantitative research methods, successfully making the case for violations of economic rights, end up undermining the human rights cause by eclipsing the voice of the individual? Can the requirement of informed consent from victims be waived when dealing with sec…
You're either with us or against us
Land reform and post-genocide justice and reconciliation are arguably the two most pressing challenges facing Rwanda. Both will only be delivered by collaboration between government, civil society, and international donors. This article explores the realignment of these actors within post-genocide and post-conflict policy-making processes. Rwanda is a hard case for NGOs and civil society, in that both the internal freedoms of democracy and the ex…
An Unfinished Enterprise
The field of human rights is entering uncharted waters in the early years of the twenty-first century. This Journal is born out of a conviction that such a radical change calls for new forums to help map its contours and set a course for the future. As the practical application of the human rights frame-work has grown exponentially over the last decade, so has academic interest in the field. Critical assessment of documentation, campaigning, advo…
Reasons to Be Cautious about Evidence and Evaluation
An evaluation culture is becoming a feature of human rights practice. This article concurs with the prevailing wisdom that more evaluation of such practice is needed. But it also suggests that the lure of evaluation could be extremely damaging if it is embraced in haste or ignorance. In this new venture what is required is an informed approach to the strengths and weaknesses of cultures of evaluation; adaptation to the particularities of the huma…
Novel Truths
Research Article| January 01 2009 NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS Paul Gready Paul Gready Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 156–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659704 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Gready; NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2009; 46 (1): 156–176. …
The Public Life of Narratives
Culture, Testimony, and the Toolbox of Transitional Justice
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated nongovernmental organizations and large-scale funding from western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms have been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing. This article proposes a new agenda for practice, one that offers …
Rethinking civil society and transitional justice
Transitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory…
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is…
You're either with us or against us
Land reform and post-genocide justice and reconciliation are arguably the two most pressing challenges facing Rwanda. Both will only be delivered by collaboration between government, civil society, and international donors. This article explores the realignment of these actors within post-genocide and post-conflict policy-making processes. Rwanda is a hard case for NGOs and civil society, in that both the internal freedoms of democracy and the ex…
The Sophiatown writers of the fifties
Attempts to capture the zest for life and what Geertz called 'a thick description'l of Sophiatown's gargantuan reality have eluded even its most faithful disciples. Mattera has claimed that 'nobody can write the real story of Sophiatown'.2 Sophiatown was a juvenile delinquent in a city also of tender years. The mineral explosion on the Witwatersrand from 1886 hurled it into an era of industrial capitalism, and the world economy. From nothing Joha…
Reasons to Be Cautious about Evidence and Evaluation
An evaluation culture is becoming a feature of human rights practice. This article concurs with the prevailing wisdom that more evaluation of such practice is needed. But it also suggests that the lure of evaluation could be extremely damaging if it is embraced in haste or ignorance. In this new venture what is required is an informed approach to the strengths and weaknesses of cultures of evaluation; adaptation to the particularities of the huma…
Rights-based approaches to development
Advocates and activists for human rights are currently facing a paradox: the coexistence of profound challenges in familiar territory (civil liberties) alongside expansion into new areas. Rights-based approaches (RBAs) are a part of this latter expansionary stream. This article argues that four kinds of potential value-added can be claimed. First, value-added can be sought through direct, indirect, and strategic uses of the law. Second, value can…
Analysis
This article argues that transitional justice ranges from the very personal and local to the global and structural, spanning processes and outcomes, clear demands, compromises and contracts. It explores this diversity using the framework of ‘embedded justice’ and ‘distanced justice’, and the case studies of South Africa, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The argument draws on Fletcher and Weinstein (2002) to argue that justice needs to be embedded within …
Autobiography and the 'power of writing
This article argues that to be a political prisoner is to be variously written, to be contested through writing. The word is a weapon that both inflicts pain and secures power. Prisoners are relentlessly rewritten within the official ‘power of writing’, from interrogation and the making of a statement, through legislation and the political trial, to the regulations governing imprisonment. Within this process the prisoner's sense of self and world…
Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) seem to be grounded in assumptions of change that remain implicit and therefore often undebated. These assumptions of change play at two levels, i.e. that of organisational change and that of social change. The main emphasis of this article is on organisational change as the logical precursor to social change. Explanatory factors for the challenges in introducing HRBADs in development organiza…
An Unfinished Enterprise
The field of human rights is entering uncharted waters in the early years of the twenty-first century. This Journal is born out of a conviction that such a radical change calls for new forums to help map its contours and set a course for the future. As the practical application of the human rights frame-work has grown exponentially over the last decade, so has academic interest in the field. Critical assessment of documentation, campaigning, advo…
Culture, Testimony, and the Toolbox of Transitional Justice
From agency to root causes
Transformative justice has emerged as a new practice agenda for addressing structural and systemic violence in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies. This article is situated at a critical juncture: while the emerging scholarship has focussed on community agency and action, there is little as yet that has explored the social structures and relations in transition societies that are harm-generating and which constrain action. We argue tha…
First Encounters
This section of practice notes is written by early career researchers, reflecting on their first experiences of fieldwork in human rights-related settings. It has two sources of inspiration, the submission to JHRP of a practice note on this subject (Browne and Moffett’s piece) and the subsequent realization by the journal editors that although there is a growing literature on challenging fieldwork, there is little that directly addresses the chal…
Introduction - 'Responsibility to the Story
Should human rights researchers prioritize the needs and wishes of victims in their outputs and advocacy? Should different ethical norms apply to victims and perpetrators? Can innovative quantitative research methods, successfully making the case for violations of economic rights, end up undermining the human rights cause by eclipsing the voice of the individual? Can the requirement of informed consent from victims be waived when dealing with sec…
Feature review
Organisational Theories of Change in the Era of Organisational Cosmopolitanism
This article argues that organisational cosmopolitanism is an increasingly common characteristic of international ngos. Cosmopolitanism goes beyond international staffing, to include multi-sectoral mandates, multiple skill sets and multiple levels of working. It also challenges the orthodoxies of its parent discourses. Change within such international ngos represents a new frontier in organisational change, as its ambit and ambition extends beyon…
Conceptualising globalisation and human rights
This article attempts to address a basic question in relation to human rights: are there conceptual frameworks that can be applied usefully to the entire terrain of globalisation, cutting across its layered processes and the activities of both supporters and critics? Two, inter-related, frameworks are discussed here: boomerangs and borders. Three boomerangs are identified: the advocacy boomerang, the boomerang as campaigning strategy, and the (in…
Universities unbound
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism
This article analyses how to build a culture of human rights in the era of populism. The UK, and the York Human Rights City initiative, provide a case study. The article draws on a human rights practice methodology, activist practices and broader social processes and practices, both in York, to analyse the potential of the ‘local’, and in particular cities, to develop a human rights culture. It argues that such a culture needs to go beyond curren…
Transitional justice from the margins
The Tunisian revolution of 2011 moved from socio-economic to political concerns, and from the margins and periphery of the South and West of the country to the centre, Tunis, driven by the slogan of “jobs, dignity and freedom”. The goal of this article is to understand the potential of using the spatially informed concept of marginalisation to reimagine transitional justice, using the “victim zone” as a case study. The Truth and Dignity Commissio…
Rethinking Human Rights in York as a Human Rights City
Human rights is in crisis in the UK. It lacks significant political backing and public support. This ‘insider account’ of York becoming a human rights city suggests that there is a need to rethink approaches to human rights. The article looks at the strategies adopted in the city; the annual city‐based indicator report which provides the key reference point for all local activities; and the declaration of York as a ‘human rights city’ in 2017 alo…
Novel Truths
Research Article| January 01 2009 NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS Paul Gready Paul Gready Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 156–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659704 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Gready; NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2009; 46 (1): 156–176. …
Medical Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
This research builds on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission process. At its health sector hearings, while district surgeons were widely criticized, chiefly for their work with detainees, they and their testimony were largely absent. Their views and perceptions of their experiences remain unknown. This article, based on in-depth interviews with eighteen district surgeons in 1999, investigates the charges of medical complicity in …
District Surgeons in Apartheid South Africa
C entral to South Africa's democratic transformation have been attempts to understand how and why human rights abuses were committed under apartheid. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) convened Health Sector Hearings in June 1997 to explore how decades of systematic racial discrimination had shaped South Africa's health services and how the health sector contributed to
Books reviewed
A. von Kotze, Organise And Act — The Natal Workers Theatre Movement, 1983–1987, Culture and Working Life, Durban, 1988, 127pp. Penina Muhando Mlama, Culture and Development: The Popular Theatre Approach in Africa, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1990. UTAFJTI Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Special Issue on Culture, VII (1985), 62pp. Miriam Tlali, Soweto Stories, Pandora Press, …
The Sophiatown writers of the fifties
Attempts to capture the zest for life and what Geertz called 'a thick description'l of Sophiatown's gargantuan reality have eluded even its most faithful disciples. Mattera has claimed that 'nobody can write the real story of Sophiatown'.2 Sophiatown was a juvenile delinquent in a city also of tender years. The mineral explosion on the Witwatersrand from 1886 hurled it into an era of industrial capitalism, and the world economy. From nothing Joha…
Autobiography and the 'power of writing
This article argues that to be a political prisoner is to be variously written, to be contested through writing. The word is a weapon that both inflicts pain and secures power. Prisoners are relentlessly rewritten within the official ‘power of writing’, from interrogation and the making of a statement, through legislation and the political trial, to the regulations governing imprisonment. Within this process the prisoner's sense of self and world…
The witness
District Surgeons in Apartheid South Africa
C entral to South Africa's democratic transformation have been attempts to understand how and why human rights abuses were committed under apartheid. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) convened Health Sector Hearings in June 1997 to explore how decades of systematic racial discrimination had shaped South Africa's health services and how the health sector contributed to
Feature review
Magistrates Under Apartheid
This article focuses on the simultaneous impact of the prevailing legal doctrine of positivism and the fact of being state employees on the work and perceptions of magistrates in apartheid South Africa. It examines the complementarity of 'ruleoriented' and 'role-oriented' positivism which rendered legal theory subservient to and a form of argumentation for a dominant political agenda. Broad allegiances to the law and to the state conditioned not …
Conceptualising globalisation and human rights
This article attempts to address a basic question in relation to human rights: are there conceptual frameworks that can be applied usefully to the entire terrain of globalisation, cutting across its layered processes and the activities of both supporters and critics? Two, inter-related, frameworks are discussed here: boomerangs and borders. Three boomerangs are identified: the advocacy boomerang, the boomerang as campaigning strategy, and the (in…
Analysis
This article argues that transitional justice ranges from the very personal and local to the global and structural, spanning processes and outcomes, clear demands, compromises and contracts. It explores this diversity using the framework of ‘embedded justice’ and ‘distanced justice’, and the case studies of South Africa, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The argument draws on Fletcher and Weinstein (2002) to argue that justice needs to be embedded within …
The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
"This No-Nonsense Guide looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the advances in international law that have led to some rights abusers facing justice, and the conflicts that can occur when rights collide with culture." "While progress is being made in some areas, millions continue to suffer. Now that the world is in the grip of a 'war on terror', are people willing…
Medical Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
This research builds on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission process. At its health sector hearings, while district surgeons were widely criticized, chiefly for their work with detainees, they and their testimony were largely absent. Their views and perceptions of their experiences remain unknown. This article, based on in-depth interviews with eighteen district surgeons in 1999, investigates the charges of medical complicity in …
The Public Life of Narratives
Culture, Testimony, and the Toolbox of Transitional Justice
Rights-based approaches to development
Advocates and activists for human rights are currently facing a paradox: the coexistence of profound challenges in familiar territory (civil liberties) alongside expansion into new areas. Rights-based approaches (RBAs) are a part of this latter expansionary stream. This article argues that four kinds of potential value-added can be claimed. First, value-added can be sought through direct, indirect, and strategic uses of the law. Second, value can…
An Unfinished Enterprise
The field of human rights is entering uncharted waters in the early years of the twenty-first century. This Journal is born out of a conviction that such a radical change calls for new forums to help map its contours and set a course for the future. As the practical application of the human rights frame-work has grown exponentially over the last decade, so has academic interest in the field. Critical assessment of documentation, campaigning, advo…
Reasons to Be Cautious about Evidence and Evaluation
An evaluation culture is becoming a feature of human rights practice. This article concurs with the prevailing wisdom that more evaluation of such practice is needed. But it also suggests that the lure of evaluation could be extremely damaging if it is embraced in haste or ignorance. In this new venture what is required is an informed approach to the strengths and weaknesses of cultures of evaluation; adaptation to the particularities of the huma…
Novel Truths
Research Article| January 01 2009 NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS Paul Gready Paul Gready Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 156–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659704 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Gready; NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2009; 46 (1): 156–176. …
The Era of Transitional Justice
Introduction 1. Truth as Genre 2. From Social Truth to Rights-Based Participation 3. Justice Past 4. Justice Present 5. Speaking Truth to Reconciliation 6. Reconciliation, Relationships and the Everyday. Conclusion
Introduction - 'Responsibility to the Story
Should human rights researchers prioritize the needs and wishes of victims in their outputs and advocacy? Should different ethical norms apply to victims and perpetrators? Can innovative quantitative research methods, successfully making the case for violations of economic rights, end up undermining the human rights cause by eclipsing the voice of the individual? Can the requirement of informed consent from victims be waived when dealing with sec…
You're either with us or against us
Land reform and post-genocide justice and reconciliation are arguably the two most pressing challenges facing Rwanda. Both will only be delivered by collaboration between government, civil society, and international donors. This article explores the realignment of these actors within post-genocide and post-conflict policy-making processes. Rwanda is a hard case for NGOs and civil society, in that both the internal freedoms of democracy and the ex…
Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium
Chapter 1: P Gready with W Vandenhole, Introduction - What are we Trying to Change? Theories of Change in Development and Human Rights Approaches Chapter 2: H-O Sano, The drivers of human rights change in development Chapter 3: G de Beco, Human rights indicators and MDG indicators: Building a common language for human rights and development organizations Chapter 4: A Tostensen, H Stokke and S Trygged, Means, Modes and Methods: Donor Support Strat…
Introduction - Why a Special Issue on Human Rights Education (HRE) and Training
Education and training programmes have become one of the most familiar features of the contemporary global human rights landscape. Their current volume and scope would have been unimaginable even two decades ago. Programmes dedicated to human rights education (HRE) and training are now delivered by a myriad of actors and are aimed at various audiences. Some of these seek to prompt and inform legislative change or policymaking through outreach to …
Organisational Theories of Change in the Era of Organisational Cosmopolitanism
This article argues that organisational cosmopolitanism is an increasingly common characteristic of international ngos. Cosmopolitanism goes beyond international staffing, to include multi-sectoral mandates, multiple skill sets and multiple levels of working. It also challenges the orthodoxies of its parent discourses. Change within such international ngos represents a new frontier in organisational change, as its ambit and ambition extends beyon…
Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) seem to be grounded in assumptions of change that remain implicit and therefore often undebated. These assumptions of change play at two levels, i.e. that of organisational change and that of social change. The main emphasis of this article is on organisational change as the logical precursor to social change. Explanatory factors for the challenges in introducing HRBADs in development organiza…
First Encounters
This section of practice notes is written by early career researchers, reflecting on their first experiences of fieldwork in human rights-related settings. It has two sources of inspiration, the submission to JHRP of a practice note on this subject (Browne and Moffett’s piece) and the subsequent realization by the journal editors that although there is a growing literature on challenging fieldwork, there is little that directly addresses the chal…
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