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Human Rights and Change

16 - 18 June 2014
Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Supported by:
Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice
Application deadline
Panels and Papers should be submitted by 1 December 2013.
Fees
Further information and booking


Target Audience

While there will be a number of panels and other events focused on the Middle East, a significant portion of the conference will deal with much broader contexts and issues, and paper submissions which address the broader theme in any context are welcome. We also welcome, and indeed actively encourage, participation from non-academics who are involved in human rights practice.

Objectives

Some of the questions to be addressed in the conference include:

  • How do we understand change in the realm of human rights? What theoretical and conceptual perspectives do we have to help us analyse change?
  • What is the relationship between broader geopolitical change and human rights development? Is human rights a product or a cause of such change?
  • How do we explain changes in norms, laws and societies?
  • Is change a top-down or bottom-up process?
  • Has our understanding of human rights changed?
  • Is human rights expansion a teleological process? Do we assume that it is?
  • How do we deal with competing norms in times of flux?
  • How have human rights been integrated (or not) into domestic legal and political orders?
  • What role do human rights play in transitional justice processes?
  • What explains the Arab Spring?
  • How does the Arab Spring confirm or challenge current approaches to human rights development?
  • What role of global and international actors played in fomenting or furthering the political dynamics of the Arab Spring?