A UNIVERSITY of Ulster student has been awarded the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Prize for the best dissertation submitted in 2012.
Ruby Moshenska, a student on the LLM in human rights law and transitional justice programme at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) was honoured for her study into the political and symbolic significance of imprisonment during times of conflict.
Her paper, The Prison Was the Battlefield: Conflict Imprisonment and Resistance in Northern Ireland and South Africa, examined the issues of prisons as sites of profound political and symbolic significance in States experiencing conflict.
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University of Ulster law student Ruby Moshenska
A UNIVERSITY of Ulster student has been awarded the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Prize for the best dissertation submitted in 2012.
Ruby Moshenska, a student on the LLM in human rights law and transitional justice programme at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) was honoured for her study into the political and symbolic significance of imprisonment during times of conflict.
Her paper, The Prison Was the Battlefield: Conflict Imprisonment and Resistance in Northern Ireland and South Africa, examined the issues of prisons as sites of profound political and symbolic significance in States experiencing conflict.