Dr. Cindy Holder
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Credentials
BA (McGill), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (University of Arizona)
Area of expertise
Philosophy of international law, human rights, transitional justice, group rights, social ontology
Cindy has been at the University of Victoria since 2001. Her research focuses on human rights, including the human rights of groups; official apologies, truth commissions and other institutional mechanisms for responding to gross and systematic human rights abuses; international ethics, including the ethics of armed conflict and transitions to peace; and the rights and responsibilities of collective subjects.
For a detailed list of Cindy's recent publications, please see our "What We're Writing" page.
Articles and Chapters
2025
“Human Rights and Philosophy” in Christina Szurlej, ed. Human Rights in Canada and Internationally (Emond Publishers: Toronto, ON, 2025), chapter 3.
2024
“What Do Apologies Really Change? Andrew Cohen’s Apologies and Moral Repair”, Reason Papers 44:2 (Fall 2024), 175-190.
2022
“Entitled to a Good Life Without Qualification: How Poverty Wrongs Those Experiencing it” in Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak, eds. Routledge Handbook on Philosophy and Poverty (Routledge: London, 2022).
2020
“Human Rights Without Hierarchy: Why Theories of Global Justice Should Embrace the Indivisibility Principle” in Johnny Antonio Davilà, ed., Cuestiones de justicia global (Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia: 2020), pp. 125-150.
2017
“Whose Wrong Is It Anyway? Reflecting on the Public-ness of Public Apologies”, C4E Journal: Perspectives on Ethics, 2017
2016
“Transition, Trust and Partial Legality: On Colleen Murphy’s A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation”, Criminal Law and Philosophy 10:1 (2016), 153-164
2014
“Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of State Regret” in Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler, eds. On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), pp. 203-219.
2013
“Truthfulness and Transition” in Larry May and Elizabeth Edenberg, eds., Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press: 2013), pp. 244-261.
2012
“Global Justice Beyond Distribution: Poverty and Natural Resources”, Public Affairs Quarterly 26:1 (January 2012), 33-44.
“Devolving Power to Sub-State Groups: Some Worries about the Worries”, The Monist 95:1 (January 2012), 87-103.
2011
“Democratic Authority from the Outside Looking In: States, Common Worlds and Wrongful Connections”, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 5:3 (August 2011).
“Indigenous Rights to Land” in Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Deen Chatterjee, ed. (Springer: 2011), 534-538.
2008
“Culture as an Activity and Human Right: An Important Advance for Indigenous Peoples and International Law" Alternatives, Special Issue on Indigenous Peoples, 33 (2008), 7-28.
with Jeff Corntassel: “Who’s Sorry Now? Government Apologies, Truth Commissions and Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala and Peru” Human Rights Review 9:4 (July/September 2008).
“Responding to Humanitarian Crises” in Larry May, ed. War and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press: 2008), p. 85-104.
2006
“Debating the Danish Cartoons: Civil Rights or Civil Power?”, UNB Law Journal 55 (2006), 179-185.
“Self-Determination as a Universal Human Right”, Human Rights Review 7:4 (July-September 2006), 5-18.
“Culture as a Basic Human Right” in Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada, Avigail Eisenberg, ed (University of British Columbia Press, 2006), pp. 124-154.