In the wake of the rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights on 27 July 2024, Mitchell Institute Fellow Dr Erika Jiménez provides an insight into the indigenous people and history of the area, in her recent article in The Conversation.

Read the article here.

 

Dr Erika Jiménez

Mitchell Institute Fellow: Rights and Social Justice, Dr Erika Jiménez is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law on a project entitled: Golani youth, human rights and the forgotten occupation.  Her project aims to explore the views of Golani youth on the occupation and the usefulness of human rights discourse in their struggle against it.  It also seeks to compare youth’s perspectives with those of older Golani generations and those of their Palestinian peers in the occupied West Bank (drawing on her previous research).

Erika is interested in conducting research that amplifies voices and ‘ways of knowing’ that are often side-lined in society and academia.  She has experience of conducting children’s rights-based and participatory research including working along research advisory groups made up of minoritised populations.