Neue interdisziplinäre Promotionsgruppe „Human Rights Now – How?“
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Graduiertenschule International Max Planck Research School Global Multiplicity (IMPRS-GM) haben Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach (Lehrstuhl für Menschenrechtspolitik am Institut für Politische Wissenschaft) und Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller (Lehrstuhl für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie am Institut für Soziologie) eine interdisziplinäre IMPRS-Promotionsgruppe gegründet. Sie trägt den Titel „Human Rights Now – How?“.
Die erste Kohorte bilden Sarah Hammerl, Alicja Polakiewicz und Lama Ranjous. Gemeinsam formulierten sie das Leitbild der Gruppe:
Human Rights Now – How?
Our research team draws on political science, legal anthropology, and international law to investigate the multiple contemporary ways in which actors respond to and address human rights violations in mass atrocity contexts. Through empirical research, we focus on the construction of human rights violation knowledge, the way in which it is framed and recognized or contested, as well as the power dynamics that both inhere within and simultaneously surround it. Combining perspectives from academia and practice, we examine accountability processes, analyzing how human rights violations are investigated and adjudicated across various justice systems. To this end, we scrutinize the interactions and influences of different actors – whether focused on legal resolutions or operating in spaces beyond the law – who jointly shape the landscape of international (criminal) justice more broadly as well as the trajectories of individual cases more specifically.
While differing in disciplinary outlook, regional focus, and specific research topic, our group forms a collaborative association of scholars who share a common interest in the substantive issues of the legal complexities and social dimensions surrounding human rights (violations) and justice.
