Deadline- 1 December 2013
All eligible participants are invited to participate in conference on the theme “Human Rights and Change” which will be conducted in Kadir Has University in Istanbul from 16-18 June 2014. This conference is organized by Human Rights Section, International Studies Association, Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association, Human Rights Research Committee, International Political Science Association, Standing Group on Human Rights and Transition, European Consortium for Political Research
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 analyze 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?
Eligibility–
Participants around the world can participate in this conference
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