The Clemens Nathan Research Centre (CNRC) is a British

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organisation that focuses on organising international conferences with speakers from multidisciplinary fields, as well as publishing edited books.

Overview

The centre was founded in 2004 and is the research arm of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations.

History

The centre was founded when Clemens N. Nathan (1933–2015) was persuaded to start a research centre as part of the CCJO. Nathan's career was in textiles, but he had worked for several Jewish causes, as well as international human rights and interfaith relations. Nathan was described by CCJO founder Rene Cassin as
the human of human rights
. He became the centre's first chairman and Alan Stephens became the first director. Nathan spoke at several events including at the

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on 'Human Rights in the 21st Century', and a keynote paper at the ETJN International Conference on Rehabilitation and Transitional Justice (2012), published in the International Human Rights Law Review in 2016.

Work

The aim of the CNRC has been to organise, sponsor and enable conferences and discussions about various fields of human rights, usually every two years, to include leading academics, lawyers, practitioners and advisors. Conference subjects have included Transitional Justice, Freedom of Expression, Victim Reparations and Freedom of Religion. Co-sponsors have included the

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Redress
the European Atlantic Group
Essex Human Rights Centre
and th
Essex Transitional Justice Network
The CNRC has "stimulated and facilitated discussion, research and study on a striking array of topics, including international organisations, Human Rights, interfaith relations and

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and German-Jewish history". Leif Holmstrom, from the

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, Lund, described the CNRC as having succeeded "in launching and sustaining useful and constructive events and programmes which have had a beneficial and measurable impact on the improvement of Human Rights.".Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, 2009

References

External links

Clemens Nathan Research Centre
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