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Networks play a central role in the human rights field. Expert contributors in this book explain how different types of networks form and shape outcomes globally. Together, they demonstrate how connections among scholars, practitioners and activists drive knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplines, spurring innovation to address global challenges such as inequality and injustice.
Each chapter offers insights from personal experiences of building and sustaining diverse networks across traditional academic boundaries. Contributors examine the role of technology (including digital platforms, social media and podcasts) in expanding a network. They offer practical advice for overcoming systemic challenges such as resource constraints and gender bias. Chapters highlight case studies of successful human rights networking projects, emphasising how academic research can influence real-world advocacy. Reflecting on the dynamism and resilience of the human rights field, the book ultimately sheds light on the transformative power and joy of community building among people working in this space.
The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights is an essential read for academics and practitioners across human rights, international relations and law seeking effective strategies for collaboration, advocacy and innovation in their work.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: networking for human rights 1
Bonny Ibhawoh, Shareen Hertel and Mark Gibney
PART I NETWORKING WITHIN ACADEMIA
2 Networking for academic freedom: issues and challenges 9
George Andreopoulos
3 Academic networking for human rights: research chairs as
social capital 24
Alison Brysk
4 On (not) networking while female 37
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
5 An interview with Bert Lockwood 45
Bert Lockwood with Mark Gibney
6 Academic networks as research and learning communities 53
Francesca Parente and Kelebogile Zvobgo
PART II BRIDGING THE ACADEMIC AND PRACTICE DIVIDES
7 Thinking about academic networks through social network
analysis 63
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
8 Moving economic and social rights from the margins to the
center through networking 73
Shareen Hertel
9 The Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Consortium 84
Mark Gibney
10 Participedia: networking for democratic innovations 95
Bonny Ibhawoh
11 Partnerships, networks, and eco-systems: the case of human
rights cities 105
Morten Kjaerum
12 Human rights networks: from analogue to digital 115
Todd Landman
13 Paradigm shifts and the evolution of quantitative human
rights cooperation 125
Skip Mark and Daniel Arnon
14 The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI):
transforming accountability through collaboration 138
Pratibha Singh and K. Anne Watson
PART III STUDYING THE PRACTICE WORLD
15 The complex of issue networks in transitional justice 151
Bo Won Kim and Sumin Lee
16 A Geneva perspective on human rights networking at the
U.N.: schmoozing for human rights 167
