Academic conference on Methods of Human Rights Research, 23-24 November 2007

19.6.2007

Online-registration for conference on 'Methods of Human Rights Research' open now!

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The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), is organizing an academic conference on Methods of Human Rights Research on 23 and 24 November 2007.

Surprisingly little attention tends to be devoted to the methods that underlie academic human rights research. Moreover, although much emphasis continues to be put on the need to embark on human rights research from a multidisciplinary perspective, the methods to be applied in such research are far from clear. The key question that will be considered at the conference is: by which criteria can a product of human rights research be qualified as a methodologically sound piece of work? The conference will attempt to identify 'good practices' in methods of human rights research. What are examples of such good practices and what are examples of practices that are unsatisfactory from a methodological point of view? And are there aspects and considerations that are typical for the methods of research applied in the field of human rights? These questions will be considered from the perspective of three broad scholarly disciplines: law (including international law and criminal law); social sciences (including criminology, political science, comparative politics, international relations and anthropology); and the humanities (including philosophy and history).

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