Civilization Rights InstituteThe knowledgebehind the mission.
Books, published chapters, frameworks, and the growing Civilizology Body of Knowledge.
The scholarship behind the mission.
Every item below carries a full citation and, where available, a link to the publication itself. Work published in third-party volumes links to the publisher; the Institute’s own documents are hosted here in full.
Peer-reviewed and published scholarship
Work that has passed through academic publication.
Civilization Resilience: A New Perspective for Addressing Climate Change and Health Threats
Establishes civilization resilience as a framework for the intertwined challenges of climate change and health threats, with particular attention to indigenous communities. Grounded in the Universal Declaration of Civilization Rights and the emerging field of Civilizology.
Rashed, A.; Rashed, T.; El-Belqassy, M. and Rashed, H. Civilization resilience: A new perspective for addressing climate change and health threats (Chapter 14). In Saroj Pachauri, Ash Pachauri, M.P. Jonathan (editors): Health and Climate Change, 2025. Paper ISBN: 9780443292408; eBook ISBN: 9780443292415.
Books
Long-form works setting out the doctrine.
حقوق حضارة لبناء حضارة: من الأجداد إلى الأحفاد (Civilization Rights to Build a Civilization: From Ancestors to Descendants)
An output of the national academic research initiative “Civilization Rights to Build a Civilization” (project no. 1417), supported by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. Now used as a university teaching text.
Civilization Rights Institute (2020). حقوق حضارة لبناء حضارة: من الأجداد إلى الأحفاد [Civilization Rights to Build a Civilization: From Ancestors to Descendants]. Cairo. ISBN 978-977-268-756-5. Legal deposit no. 8865/2020. 149 pp.
Full text not yet available online — contact the Institute for a copy
Foundational frameworks
The doctrine itself — principles, science, application.
Universal Declaration of Civilization Rights
Fifteen articles in four parts: Core Protections and Principles; Framework for Global Recognition; Mechanisms for Action; Implementation and Diplomacy.
Civilization Rights Institute. Universal Declaration of Civilization Rights. Civilization Rights Institute, Henrico, Virginia. Available at: https://civilizationrightsinstitute.org/declaration/
Civilizology Body of Knowledge
Organises the field across thematic domains, civilization-specific study across seven world regions, and domain-specific application from engineering and medicine to law, ethics and planning.
Civilization Rights Institute. Civilizology Body of Knowledge [framework]. Civilization Rights Institute. Civilization Rights Institute. 12 pp.
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Civilization Rights Framework for the Recovery and Sustainability of Civilizations, 2030–2050
Translates the fifteen articles and the science of Civilizology into a form states and international organisations can adopt and report against — the successor architecture to the Sustainable Development Goals after 2030.
Civilization Rights Institute. Civilization Rights Framework for the Recovery and Sustainability of Civilizations (2030–2050) [manuscript in preparation]. Civilization Rights Institute.
Full text not yet available online — contact the Institute for a copy
Conference proceedings and policy contributions
Where the work has been argued in public forums.
Civilization Resilience: The Missing Link in Climate Action and Social Justice for Heritage Sites and Communities
An official Civil20 India 2023 think tank, co-hosted with the C20 Sustainable and Resilient Communities Working Group, delivering endorsed policy recommendations to the C20 Summit.
Civilization Rights Institute & C20 Sustainable and Resilient Communities Working Group (2023, 17 April). Civilization Resilience: The Missing Link in Climate Action and Social Justice for Heritage Sites and Communities [Official Civil20 India 2023 event]. Civil20, G20 India.
Civilization Resilience — Concept Note and Proposed Policy Recommendations
The argument submitted to the C20 process: that neither the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples nor WIPO intellectual property law recognises the possession, display, replication and commercial exploitation of heritage structures, monuments and artifacts — the gap civilization rights is designed to close — together with the policy recommendations proposed to the C20 Summit.
Civilization Rights Institute (2023). Civilization Resilience: The Missing Link in Climate Action and Social Justice for Heritage Sites and Communities — Concept Note and Proposed Policy Recommendations. Civil20 India 2023, Sustainable and Resilient Communities Working Group.
International Conference on Civilization Resilience — Chance, Challenge, Change
The post-COVID global think tank that brought civilization resilience into international academic discussion.
Civilization Rights Institute & Farouk El-Baz Centre for Sustainability and Future Studies, The British University in Egypt (2020, November). International Conference on Civilization Resilience: Chance – Challenge – Change. Cairo, Egypt.
Civilization Resilience as an Emerging Science: Chance – Challenge – Change
A call to scientists, researchers and scholars to submit papers establishing the body of knowledge and boundaries of the new science, including work at the historical sites of Luxor.
Civilization Rights Institute (2022, November). Civilization Resilience as an Emerging Science: Chance – Challenge – Change [Call for participation]. Cairo and Luxor, Egypt.
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Civilization Resilience — the founding articulation
The first articulation of civilization resilience: framing resilience through the lens of civilizations rather than infrastructure alone.
Rashed, A. Y. (2018). Civilization Resilience [Conference presentation]. Effat University, Saudi Arabia.
Institutional documents
How the Institute states its own purpose.
Civilization Rights Institute — Corporate Agenda
Sets out the three pillars — Principles, Framework, Application — and the Institute’s roadmap: the Alliance, a Civilizology university programme, media, platform, forum, action, and Civilization Rights Day.
Civilization Rights Institute (2022). CRI Corporate Agenda (Version 1.0). Richmond, Virginia: Civilization Rights Institute. 25 pp.
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