Innovations in Human Rights

We are proud to announce the publication of Innovations in Human Rights: Concepts, Data, and Measurement (Edward Elgar Publishing), co-edited by lab director Kelebogile Zvobgo and faculty affiliate Francesca Parente!

Together with the volume contributors, Drs. Zvobgo and Parente present a practical framework for conceptualizing and analyzing human rights issues such as repression, compliance, and transitional justice in an increasingly fraught climate for human rights globally. Emerging and established experts advance quantitative and mixed-methods research, showcasing innovative ways of measuring and evaluating multifaceted concepts.

Chapters cover a broad range of salient topics including state repression, civil society activism, compliance with international law, and transitional justice. Emphasizing that rigorous research is driven by substance, not methods, the contributing authors explain how they measure concepts that are vital to human rights research. They showcase diverse forms of evidence in descriptive and analytical studies, as well as guidance for using cutting-edge techniques like machine learning and text analysis, charting a path for future empirical human rights research.

Innovations in Human Rights provides students and scholars with an essential toolkit they can incorporate into their learning, research, and teaching of human rights, international law, international organizations, and research methods.

You can read our introduction chapter here: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035356461/chapter1.xml. And you can purchase the book here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/innovations-in-human-rights-9781035356454.html. Use the discount code KZBG35 for 35% off at checkout.