Interview with Celia Benhocine
The Catalyst team met with Celia Benhocine to discuss her upcoming article “Renewed Civil War in Libya: Assessing Potential Outcomes” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Category: Featured Series
Our featured series explore a specific theme or field of international development.
Interview with Clara Sedzro
The Catalyst team met with Clara Sedzro to discuss her upcoming article “Navigating Feminism and Self-Determination: Indigenous Women's Movements and Indigenous Feminism in Canada and Internationally” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Interview with Kai Scott
The Catalyst team met with Kai Scott to discuss his upcoming article “Between the Practical and the Discursive: Nation-Building in West Papua” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Interview with Shannon Greisman
The Catalyst team met with Shannon Greisman to discuss her upcoming article “Land Grabbing in Laos: The Legacies of Conflict on Contemporary Political Decision-Making” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Interview with Delphine Polidori
The Catalyst team met with Delphine Polidori to discuss her upcoming article “The perception of displaced persons as biological” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Interview with Kate Grantham
The Catalyst team met with Kate Grantham to discuss her paper “Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental and Ethical Disaster” to be featured in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
Interview with Mahnoor Ali Syed
The Catalyst team met with Mahnoor Ali Syed to discuss her upcoming article “Chador aur Chardevari: the Veil and Women's Agency in Pakistan” in the upcoming Spring 2021 edition of Chrysalis.
The Violence of Silence: How the West Ignored the Armenian Diaspora
The right to self determination is a founding principle of international law and the United Nations, but as Mariam Grigoryan points out, the case of Arsakh demonstrates that “in the world where oil money costs more than human lives, there’s not much hope for international law and human rights”.
Reparative Conversations: Transitional Justice in Albania, an Interview with Kristale Ivezaj Rama
Rama believes this project is a “tiny seed” in the greater movement towards transitional justice, something those living in Albania need to be able to move forward. Limitations on free speech and an unstable economy are just some of the lasting effects of this period in Albania, and as Rama so eloquently put, the “people can’t think about the past if they are too preoccupied with the present and worry about their future”.
En Route to Equality: Transgender Rights In Turkey
To this day, Turkey is still not a country where all rights of transgender individuals are protected and all prejudices are eliminated.