Focussing on the recent elections in Uganda and Namibia, in his new contribution to the Development and Peace Blog BICC researcher ...

Focussing on the recent elections in Uganda and Namibia, in his new contribution to the Development and Peace Blog BICC researcher Markus Bayer draws attention to the growing electoral support for second/third liberation movements in sub-Saharan Africa.

In their "New Political Economy" article "Human Rights and Corporate Reinsurance: From Ensuring Rights to Insuring Risks" ...

In their "New Political Economy" article "Human Rights and Corporate Reinsurance: From Ensuring Rights to Insuring Risks" Christian Scheper and Johanna Gördermann examine how a European reinsurance company links its global human rights policy with its core business, the underwriting of risks.

Human rights have become an important concern to govern the global economy based of international standards. At present two ...

Human rights have become an important concern to govern the global economy based of international standards. At present two complementing, but also competing approaches shape the discourse. On the one the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights of 2011 and on the other negotiations for an international treaty on the same topic. In her new article “The Struggle for Legitimacy in Business and Human Rights Regulation–A Consideration of the Processes Leading to the UN Guiding Principles and an International Treaty”, INEF Senior Associate Fellow Brigitte Hamm compares the processes leading to these two instruments.

On the Development and Peace Blog Jannis Saalfeld and Christof Hartmann provide an insight into the complex relationship ...

On the Development and Peace Blog Jannis Saalfeld and Christof Hartmann provide an insight into the complex relationship between Salafism and secular electoral politics in sub-Saharan African countries.