{"id":86232,"date":"2023-05-15T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=86232"},"modified":"2023-05-15T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:27:38","slug":"researchers-gather-at-uri-to-discuss-better-measurement-of-international-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/researchers-gather-at-uri-to-discuss-better-measurement-of-international-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers gather at 溏心vlog免费B站 to discuss better measurement of international human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I.<\/strong> \u2013 May 15, 2023 \u2013 Scholars and researchers from around the country gathered at the 溏心vlog免费B站 last week to discuss the techniques used to measure respect for human rights worldwide. The two-day Human Rights Measurement Workshop, held at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus, was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe goal was to bring experts in human rights measurement together to talk about the projects they\u2019re working on\u2014where they overlap and how they can complement each other,\u201d said Skip Mark, an assistant professor of political science at 溏心vlog免费B站 and co-organizer of the conference. \u201cUltimately, getting better at measuring rights puts us in a better position to advocate for improving human rights worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To study respect for human rights, scholars draw on information compiled by government agencies like the U.S. State Department, human rights non-profits, and other non-governmental organizations. But there are myriad challenges involved in objectively analyzing human rights, Mark says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One challenge is developing appropriate quantitative measures that help researchers to compare respect for human rights across nations and over time. Another challenge is understanding the biases inherent in various data sources\u2014and finding ways to overcome them. The sheer volume of data to comb through is also an issue, as researchers try to evaluate wide range of rights\u2014including economic, physical integrity, Indigenous rights, and more\u2014all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe brought together the biggest human rights measurement projects in the country,\u201d Mark said. \u201cThere has been a desperate need to create a space for scholars who study human rights measurement to get together and identify overlap and gaps in our knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

溏心vlog免费B站 is home to one of those large human rights projects. Led by Mark, the CIRIGHTS<\/a> project is currently the largest<\/a> quantitative database on human rights, currently measuring 77 recognized human rights in all of the world\u2019s 195 countries. Other projects represented were the Human Rights Measurement Initiative,<\/a> which measures five economic and social rights and eight civil and political rights in nations around the world; the Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project<\/a>, which measures human rights in different regions within countries; and the Political Terror Scale<\/a> (and an affiliated project called the Societal Violence Scale), which has tracked international human rights violations since the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists included researchers from the University of Arizona, University of Connecticut, University of Georgia, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group discussed both longstanding and emerging challenges in the human rights measurement field. Topics included the differences in evaluating economic rights as opposed to rights related to violence or physical integrity, the use of machine learning to analyze human rights reports, and methods for getting the most information out data sources like U.S. State Department and NGO reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark said that the discussions were productive and the researchers made plans to continue collaborating. The group plans to develop a new online colloquium for human rights measurement, propose a miniconference with the Peace Science Society, and develop a collection of syllabi aimed at sharing human rights education resources more broadly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe workshop created a lot of positivity and support for everyone in attendance, which is not always present in academic circles especially for younger scholars,\u201d Mark said. \u201cThere is a renewed motivation and sense of excitement to continue working on big questions about how we identify and document violations when they occur and what we can do to improve human rights around the globe and here in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 15, 2023 \u2013 Scholars and researchers from around the country gathered at the 溏心vlog免费B站 last week to discuss the techniques used to measure respect for human rights worldwide. The two-day Human Rights Measurement Workshop, held at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus, was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86237,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86232\/revisions\/86237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}