[psych-hr] Conference Announcement & Call for Papers Methods of Human Rights Research

Methods of Human Rights Research 
Conference Announcement & Call for Papers 

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).

The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights invites academic researchers to
submit papers on Methods of Human Rights Research for presentation at the
conference.

For more information visit:
http://www.rechten.unimaas.nl/humanrights. 





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