Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia
04.26.2023 | 4 - 5:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall
with Saman Zia-Zarifi (Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights; and Former Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists)
and Christine Chung (Human Rights Expert).
The panel explores the heightening of political conflict and the use of law by nationalist and far-right cultures and movements in South Asia today in areas where state and vigilante actions pose majoritarian groups as authentic and those non-dominant as “Others” as “anti-nationals”, “insurrectionists” and “outsiders”. The panel examines the weaponization of religion and racialization of difference and the use of political violence--sanctioned through deep impunity and exclusionary changes to the law, and repressive government—and explores the need for accountability to political conflict in South Asia.
Saman Zia-Zarifi and Christine Chung will be joined in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist and Co-chair of Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender), Laurel E. Fletcher (Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Berkeley Law), and Leti Volpp (Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice at Berkeley Law, and Director of the Center for Race & Gender).
Hosted by CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative. Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, and The Hon. G. William And Ariadna Miller Institute For Global Challenges And The Law.