Resilience of Human Rights Support: When Are People (Not) Willing to Protect the Rights of Others?

People are often willing to embrace rights-restricting policies if they are seen to provide security or restrain out-groups. Such policies are typically framed as security benefits. What happens when the public is prompted to consider the costs of limiting human rights? Research in this field has rarely tested public responsiveness to an explicit defense of human rights. To shed new light on this, we address two related questions: What arguments can strengthen support for human rights of others?

Russia's Hybrid War

Bob Seely MBE is a Conservative Party politician who served as the MP for the Isle of Wight from 2017 until 2024. He is a former journalist and soldier. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as a foreign correspondent in the USSR and in post-Soviet states. From 2008 to 2017, he served in the British Armed Forces on the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and ISIS campaigns.

Remembering Bona Malwal and his Achievements in Sudan and South Sudan

Join us as we remember Bona Malwal and his achievements in Sudan and South Sudan. Organised by Bona Malwal's family and The Sudanese Programme in collaboration with the Middle East Centre of the University of Oxford. Registration and attendance is free but essential in order to know numbers for College catering purposes. Please join us for all or part of the day, it will be wonderful to have you with us however long you can stay for. The programme is available at https://tinyurl.com/TSPJan26prog.

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa

Does public sector employment make graduates less likely to join anti-regime protests? Recent scholarship argues yes, with consequences for bottom-up democratization in late-developing economies with expansive public and higher education sectors. This paper examines whether this thesis travels to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We find that well-educated public sector employees were actually more likely to join anti-regime protests in Algeria and Egypt, while we estimate null effects for state dependency in Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Tunisia.
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