The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights: Making Human Connections - Hardcover

 
9781035336104: The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights: Making Human Connections
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1035336103 ISBN 13: 9781035336104
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Edited by Shareen Hertel, Professor, Department of Political Science and Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA and Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University, Canada

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1035336103
ISBN 13 
9781035336104
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
200
Editor
Hertel Shareen, Gibney Mark, Ibhawoh Bonny