Documentation of human rights violations with (geo)data: Opportunities, limitations, challenges

Fachsitzung

Sitzungs-ID

FS-455

Termin

Freitag (22. September 2023), 09:00–10:30

Raum

SH 1.104

Sitzungsleitung

Georg Glasze (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Katrin Kinzelbach (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Blake Walker (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Kurzbeschreibung

The datafication of the world brings new opportunities for monitoring human rights violations. Contributions from geography, human rights research and practices discuss methodological but also wider ethical and political challenges.

Schlagwörter

English-language session, Politische Geographie, Digitale Geographien, Methoden, Forschungsethik

Roksolana Burianenko (Mnemonic)

Digital documentation of possible human rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine

Raphaela Edler (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Elaboration of a standardized documentation scheme for the use of remote sensing data in international criminal and human rights investigations

Lama Ranjous (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

The role of the local human rights actors in the transformation of fact-finding: A comparative case study in the Syrian context

Hannes Taubenböck (DLR)

Richard Lemoine-Rodriguez (JMU Würzburg)

Hansi Senaratne (DLR)

Martin Mühlbauer (DLR)

Matthias Weigand (DLR)

Carolin Biewer (JMU Würzburg)

Documentation of human rights violations using heterogeneous geodata from remote sensing and (social) media

James R. Walker (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

The next steps in grounding the "View from Nowhere"

Abstract der Sitzung

The datafication of the world and the increasing availability of (geo)data opens up new opportunities for monitoring and documenting human rights violations, particularly especially in regions and situations that are difficult to access due to security and safety concerns. These advances are raising new technical and methodological challenges and opportunities whilst also posing fundamental ethical, legal, and political questions about data availability and use as well as questions of positionality.

We welcome contributions from diverse fields of geography, human rights research, as well as human rights practice that discuss conceptually and/or applied issues of accessibility, analysis, and the application of various (geo)data sources (e.g., remote sensing, social media) along with research exploring related ethical, legal, and political questions of visibility and positionality.

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