Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict

Media, Culture & Society Abstract What are the new possibilities of enacting justice through the vast archives of digital eyewitness images and self-representations produced since 2011 by the grassr

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Eyewitness video and human rights practice

This project will study the interplay between eyewitness videos in a digital media landscape and human rights practice.

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Janine Wedel: Meet the new influence elites. How top players sway policy and governing in the twenty-first century

Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha

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Rethinking society for the 21st century

A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se

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