Publications & Resources

Report of the Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights

The real impact of "enhanced" border controls, no-fly lists and other government watch lists on the lives of real people.

Learning and Acting Together

Canadian officials and politicians appreciate having access to perspectives and voices they otherwise would not have heard.

The Hope that Unites Us

Internal armed conflicts in Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Bearing Witness: The struggle for democracy in Burma

Inter Pares has worked with civil society organizations in Burma since 1992.

Women’s Struggle for Justice

Dedicated women who support and accompany survivors of violence, and our shared learning in the search for justice

Open Migration and the Politics of Fear

In Spring 2007, an exchange took place on an international online research and reflection network on the Great Transition Initiative, concerning the prospect of including the concept of open borders in its vision of a humane and just global future. This article shares elements of that dialogue. Published in Development, 2007, 50(4), (50–55) © 2007 Society for International Development 1011-6370/07

Reclaiming the Romance

Reflecting on dilemmas and opportunities for community organizers and activists throughout the world.

Quaker Initiative to End Torture

A movement that aims to translate the outrage people feel about torture into the political pressure that will abolish it.

Submission on the Factual Inquiry - Commission of Inquiry Maher Arar

Brief submitted to the Arar Commission, investigating collusion of the Canadian government in torture of Canadian citizen Maher Arar.

Knowledge and Action: Challenging the Limits

This keynote address by Brian Murphy at Inter Pares' 30th Anniversary Symposium, "Citizen Action: Challenging the Limits," April 2005, highlighted some of the most pressing issues for activists. From militarism and the security agenda to poverty and invasive biotechnology, Brian explores contemporary paradoxes in political action, while urging for mobilization toward progressive transformative change that challenges the limits of the (politically) possible.

Submission concerning the review of the Anti-terrorism Act (C-36)

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) — a coalition of 34 Canadian organizations — calls for repeal of Anti-terrorism Act (C-36)

Rethinking Development: Promoting Global Justice in the 21st Century

The global context that will form the imperatives that frame international cooperation, and attempts to re-think international development.

Anti-Terrorism and the Security Agenda: Impacts on Rights, Freedoms and Democracy

Recommendations for policy directions to help inform and guide civil society and the Canadian government.

In the Shadow of the Law

A response on the Bill C-36 report addressing related effects arising from the Canadian government's anti-terrorism initiatives.

In Our Own Name: Promoting Peace Through Justice

This paper was a contribution to discussions concerning Canada's role in the world, initiated by the Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his call for a "Dialogue on Foreign Affairs" in January 2003. The reflections in this paper emerge from Inter Pares' direct international experience over almost thirty years.

Thinking in the Active Voice

This presentation provides a reflection on the concepts of "development" and "modernization", and the philosophies and ideologies which underpin them.

International NGOs and the Challenge of Modernity

This paper was originally commissioned as a contribution to a special 10th Anniversary Edition of the international journal Development in Practice (Vol. 10, Nos. 3 & 4, August 2000), which explored the future of social justice action within the international voluntary sector as we entered the 21st century.