The transformation of human rights fact-finding / edited by Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey.
2016
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The transformation of human rights fact-finding / edited by Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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K3240 .T724 2016
ISBN
9780190239480 (hardback)
0190239484 (hardback)
9780190239497 (pbk.)
0190239492 (pbk.)
0190239484 (hardback)
9780190239497 (pbk.)
0190239492 (pbk.)
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xii, 549 pages, 2 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)908838863
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Alston, Philip editor.
Knuckey, Sarah editor.
Knuckey, Sarah editor.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
List of Contributors
xi
pt. ONE
Introduction
1
1.
The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding: Challenges and Opportunities / Sarah Knuckey
3
pt. TWO
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Fact-Finding
25
2.
Do Facts Exist, Can They Be "Found," and Does It Matter? / Frederic Megret
27
3.
International Human Rights Fact-Finding Praxis: A TWAIL Perspective / Obiora C. Okafor
49
4.
Human Rights Fact-Finding and the Reproduction of Hierarchies / Dustin N. Sharp
69
5.
The Gender Politics of Fact-Finding in the Context of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda / Fionnuala Ni Aolain
89
6.
Fact-Finding Missions, Legal Clinics, and the Politics of Legal Knowledge / Daniel Bonilla
107
pt. THREE
Victims and Witnesses: Empowerment or Extraction?
129
7.
The Relationship between Fact-Finders and Witnesses in Human Rights Fact-Finding: What Place for the Victims? / Theo Boutruche
131
8.
"The Danger of a Single Story": Introducing Intersectionality in Fact-Finding / Shreya Atrey
155
9.
Victims and Witnesses in Fact-Finding Commissions: Pawns or Principal Pieces? / Rosette Muzigo-Morrison
175
10.
The Complex Truth of Testimony: A Case Study of Human Rights Fact-Finding in Iraq / Daniel Rothenberg
191
11.
Implications of Trauma on Testimonial Evidence in International Criminal Trials / Laura Marschner
213
pt. FOUR
Fact-Finding for Advocacy, Enforcement, and Litigation: Purposes and Cross Purposes
231
12.
Commissions of Inquiry and the Charm of International Criminal Law: Between Transactional and Authoritative Approaches / Catherine Harwood
233
13.
The Interaction between Human Rights Fact-Finding and International Criminal Proceedings: Toward a (New) Typology / Dov Jacobs
255
14.
"Truth without Facts": On the Erosion of the Fact-Finding Function of Truth Commissions / Pablo de Greiff
281
15.
Human Rights Fact-Finding in the Shadows of America's Solitary Confinement Prisons / Taylor Pendergrass
303
pt. FIVE
The Role of Interdisciplinary Expertise and Methodologies
319
16.
A Conceptual Roadmap for Social Science Methods in Human Rights Fact-Finding / Justin C. Simeone
321
17.
Numbers are Only Human: Lessons for Human Rights Practitioners from the Quantitative Literacy Movement / Brian Root
355
18.
Investigating Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Violations / Allison Corkery
377
pt. SIX
New Technologies: Crowdsourcing, Social Media, and Big Data
397
19.
Democratizing Human Rights Fact-Finding / Molly K. Land
399
20.
The Bigness of Big Data: Samples, Models, and the Facts We Might Find when Looking at Data / Patrick Ball
425
21.
Mobile Phones, Social Media and Big Data in Human Rights Fact-Finding: Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations / Jay D. Aronson
441
22.
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Human Rights Fact-Finding / Susan R. Wolfinbarger
463
23.
Big (Crisis) Data: Humanitarian Fact-Finding with Advanced Computing / Patrick Meier
479
pt. SEVEN
Does Human Rights Fact-Finding Need International Guidelines?
499
24.
International Norms in Human Rights Fact-Finding / Diane Orentlicher
501
25.
Developing Norms of Professional Practice in the Domain of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-Finding / Claude Bruderlein
525
Index
545