Human rights research methods: Key issues and approaches

This is a book project offering a hands-on text, which introduces and critically discusses various approaches to human rights research, indicating relevant choices of methods in particular social contexts.

The book will guide human rights students and researchers to the choices available and provide insights on better research practices. The target audience consists of Ph.D. and master students, and researchers more generally, who need guidance on methodological approaches to human rights research. This also includes practitioners. Guidance is offered by showing methodological dilemmas and by problematizing options and not primarily through a steadfast didactic approach.

Editors of the book are Bård Anders A. Andreassen, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, the World Bank, and Hans-Otto Sano, Danish Institute for Human Rights. Authors of the 18 articles are from European and Nordic research institutions, from the US-based universities, and from Office of the HIgh Commissionerfor Human Rights and the World Bank. The book is mainly financed by Norforsk.

Partners

• Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
• World Bank

Funding

Norforsk