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SUMMARY:The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology\, Policing\, Poli
 tics - Dr Sharath Srinivasan\, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert
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CONTACT:Anusha Arumugam
DESCRIPTION:Peaceful assemblies have played a key role in bringing about m
 any of the major social and political changes over the last century – fr
 om women’s suffrage\, decolonisation in India and civil rights in the US
 A\, to the end of apartheid and the fall of authoritarian communist rule. 
 Assemblies routinely advance the cause of minorities including LGBTQI+ gro
 ups and indigenous peoples and put planetary survival squarely on the glob
 al agenda. Indeed\, notwithstanding pandemic restrictions\, assemblies hav
 e recently played a major role in settings as diverse as Hong Kong\, Belar
 us and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the death of George F
 loyd.\n\nThe importance of assemblies\, however\, extends beyond achieving
  particular ends. For every historically momentous assembly\, there are va
 stly more mundane and long-forgotten assemblies. These too are important s
 ince the very act of gathering together (physically or online) offers oppo
 rtunities to build solidarity\, collective identities and shared causes. M
 oreover\, many assemblies serve cultural or recreational ends and do not p
 ursue any overtly political agenda.\n\nIn recent years\, researchers and s
 tudents at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights have collaborated wit
 h colleagues in other universities and at the United Nations to advance ac
 ademic thought and normative policy work on the right of peaceful assembly
 . This has included research and advice on recognising that the right exte
 nds to online spaces\, supporting the development of the UN Human Rights C
 ommittee’s General Comment 37 on the right\, and contributing to and co-
 editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly.\n\nIn this p
 anel discussion\, Ella McPherson\, Thomas Probert and Sharath Srinivasan s
 hare insights from this work and expand upon their contributions to the Ha
 ndbook. They will speak about the digital mediation of assemblies (Ella)\,
  how the right impinges on how assemblies are policed (Thomas) and theoris
 ing the central role of assembly in politics beyond the right (Sharath).\n
 \nFollowing the panel discussion and Q&A\, CGHR will host its welcome drin
 ks for the 2023-24 academic year in the Atrium downstairs in the Alison Ri
 chard Building\, to which all are warmly invited!
LOCATION:S1\, Alison Richard Building 
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