The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law

 

AWARD WINNERS

Winner of the ICNL-Cordaid Civil Liberties Prize

Mark Sidel (professor of law, faculty scholar, and Lauridsen faculty fellow at the University of Iowa) for his manuscript, Counter-Terrorism, Civil Liberties and the Enabling Legal and Political Environment for Civil Society: A Comparative International Analysis of 'War on Terror' States.

Distinguished Research Awards

Oonagh Breen (professor in the School of Law at University College Dublin) for her manuscript, EU Regulation of Charitable Organisations: The Politics of Legally Enabling Civil Society.

Florence Adong Odora (a Ugandan lawyer who has served as a researcher with Equalinrights in The Netherlands) for her manuscript, Rising from the Ashes: The Rebirth of Civil Society in an Authoritarian Political Environment.

Honorable Mention

Angela Calvo (Regional Director of Advocacy and Citizen Committee for Caritas in Latin America and the Caribbean) for her manuscript, Strategies to Advance Civic Space in Countries with Limited Adherence to the Rule of Law.

Shambhavi Murthy Gopalkrishna (lecturer and senior academic faculty member, Department of Political Science at the University of Lagos) for her manuscript, Reflections as a Citizen of Civil Society Amidst Divided Lands on Re-inventing Civil Society, Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Conflict Societies: Patterns, Potentials, and Challenges in the Globalised New Millenium.

The first three manuscripts have been published in the June 2008 issue of the
International Journal for Not-for-Profit Law. ICNL and Cordaid also express
their appreciation to the manuscript evaluation committee:
Kumi Naidoo, Clare Doube, Richard Fries, and Grace Rebollos.