Understanding Human Rights

Presented as part of the Berkman Luncheon series.

Speakers are Andrew, and Ryan.

Goal of the project is to investigate interdisciplinary ideas on human rights.

For Example:


 * Experimental Economics (strong reciprocity)
 * Network Structures
 * Social Marketing (used for public health, but often not considered for Human Rights)
 * How can social campaigns enact human rights change.

Trying to build two pipelines.

1. Try to get top academics to talk to one another, 2. Connect scholarship to practice (don't let academic thought remain in the ivory tower) and vice versa

Gathering authors together to get them to think about.

At the end of every chapter, they'll be an "applications" page. This page will sum up (in bullet points) the thoughts of the discipline and the authors.

Question of "Translation"

Lee Ross (social psychologist) at Stanford will look at how these things can be translated from the academic context to the human rights context.

Phase One
Promoting the book itself, and the dessimination of the book.

Phase Two
Extend the ideas of the book. Push the thoughts forward into new contexts.

"Risk Aversion" - If it fails, they got a problem.

Blog
Pro: Very easy, popular. Con: Takes necessary maintainence, can look dead.

Wiki
Concerned that it will not be developed enough. Or that it will look dead.

Human Rights Matrix
List components of the human rights regime, and research into the elements of the regime.

Questions, Responses
1. Who are the constituents? * One is definitely a human rights practicioner. 2. When you set up a idealized solution, your rate of failure becomes almost 100%. So don't try to create a crystalized idea of what you want to do, but rather, build a tool you won't be able to imagine how it will be used. (Adam Holland)