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4th Joint Human Rights Conference, The Hague, 8-10 June 2015

The Hague Institute for Global Justice (THIGJ) will be hosting the 4th Joint Human Rights Conference this coming June 8-10 in The Hague, The Netherlands.  The conference is co-organized by the human rights sections/working groups of ISA, APSA, IPSA and ECPR In association with The Hague Institute for Global Justice, the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the International Human Rights Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group, American Society of International Law (ASIL).  

The call for paper is available here: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/HR-Hague-2015.  The deadline for proposals is November 14, 2014.  

Human Rights Section Panels at APSA

There are 14 excellent Section-sponsored panels at the APSA Annual Meeting, currently in progress (through Aug 31) in Washington DC. Many thanks go to Program Chair Alison Brysk for collaborating with other sections (and connecting to the Conference theme) in order to create as many openings as possible for human rights research. We look forward to seeing many of you soon.


45-1   Explaining Human Rights Compliance: Informal Institutions and Relationships in Cross-Regional Perspective
Date: Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM
Location:     Hilton Independence
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by 12 Comparative Politics of Developing Countries-18


Chair(s):     Sidney Tarrow
Cornell University
Author(s):    Social Movements, Accountability, and the Rule of Law: Evidence from Mexico and Colombia
Janice Kreinick Gallagher
Cornell University
Protest and Police Repression in East Europe and Latin America: A Human Rights Issue
Olga Onuch
University of Oxford
Accountability Politics and Human Rights: National Human Rights Institutions in Latin America
Thomas Innes Pegram

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Effects of Overlapping Institutions
Courtney Hillebrecht
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Discussant(s):        Sidney Tarrow
Cornell University


45-2   Evaluating International Criminal Courts: Processes and Politics
Date: Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Location:     Marriott Hoover
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by 17 International Collaboration-7


Chair(s):     Christopher Rudolph
American University-SIS
Author(s):    Warrant Enforcement and the Efficacy of International Criminal Tribunals
Emily Hencken Ritter

   Scott Wolford
   University of Texas, Austin
Does the ICC have an Africa Problem? Understanding the Determinants of ICC Investigations
Benjamin J. Appel
Michigan State University
   Alyssa Prorok
   University of Iowa
Who Pursues the Perpetrators? State Cooperation with the ICC
Courtney Hillebrecht
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
   Scott Straus
   University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prosecutors and Politics: The Discretion of International Prosecutors
David Bosco
American University-SIS

Discussant(s):        Christopher Rudolph
American University-SIS
Judith Kelley
Duke University

45-3   Is There Such a Thing as an "International Politics of Backlash?"
Date: Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Location:     Marriott Jefferson
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by 17 International Collaboration-18


Chair(s):     Erik Voeten
Georgetown University
Author(s):    Human Rights Backlashes
Leslie Vinjamuri
University of London, SOAS
Boomerang or Backlash: Transnational Advocacy, Women#s Human Rights, and Norm Contestation
Rochelle Terman
University of California, Berkeley
Africa’s Backlash: Three Attempts to Eliminate International Courts in Africa
Karen J. Alter
Northwestern University
   Laurence R. Helfer
   Duke University
It#s Not All About You: Alternative Routes to Human Rights Norms Change
Shareen Hertel
University of Connecticut
Spontaneous or Organized Backlash? The Politics of FDI Screening in the United States
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
   Brandice Canes-Wrone
   Princeton University
   Lauren Mattioli
   Princeton University

Discussant(s):        Erik Voeten
Georgetown University


45-4   Gender-Based Activism on Human Rights
Date: Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Location:     Marriott Jefferson
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by 31 Women and Politics Research-10


Chair(s):     Laura R. Woliver
University of South Carolina
Author(s):    US Development Policy and Women’s Empowerment: Challenging the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy to Implement Fully Integrated Gender Policy
Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Beloit College
TBA
Cheryl O'Brien
San Diego State University
Gender Equality, Culture, and the Interpretation of Human Rights
Carol C. Gould
CUNY-Graduate Center
Analyzing Over 30 Years of US Congressional Resistance to CEDAW, the UN Global Women#s Rights Treaty
Sara Angevine
Rutgers University
The International Crime of Forced Marriage Pre-Conflict Social Structure and Military Strategy
Rosa Aloisi


45-5   The Religious Freedom Project: Religious Liberty, Democracy, and Societal Flourishing in Theory and Practice
Date:Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM Location:Hilton Kalorama
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.
  Co-sponsored by 33 Religion and Politics-14

  Chair(s):Ani Sarkissian
Michigan State University
Author(s):
The Freedom to Proselytize and the Quality of Democracy
Ani Sarkissian
Michigan State University
The Importance of Conversion for Institutional Change: How Protestant Missions Overcame Elite Resistance to Reform
Robert D. Woodberry
National University of Singapore
Religious Freedom: A Universal Human Right
Daniel Philpott
University of Notre Dame
Religious Conversion and Poor Women in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Rebecca S. Shah
Georgetown University
Discussant(s):Timothy Samuel Shah
Boston University
Karrie J. Koesel
University of Oregon

45-6   Theme Panel: Revolutions and Human Rights in a Digital Age
Date: Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Location:     Hilton Jay
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by 42 New Political Science-21


Chair(s):     Jeffrey C. Isaac
Perspectives on Politics
Participant(s):       Benjamin R. Barber
CUNY-Graduate Center
Micheline Ishay
University of Denver
Mahmood Monshipouri
San Francisco State University
Joel R. Pruce
University of Dayton

45-7   Human Rights Norm Change
Date: Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM
Location:     Hilton Morgan
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.


Chair(s):     Kendra Elizabeth Dupuy
University of Washington
Author(s):    Legal Restrictions on Foreign Funding Flows and Foreign NGO Operations: Explaining Cross-National Variation, 1993-2013
Kendra Elizabeth Dupuy
University of Washington
   James Ron
   University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Framing Global Health as Human Rights: Cross-National Experiments in Persuasion?
Joshua Busby
University of Texas, Austin
Internalizing the International Criminal Court
Wayne Sandholtz
University of Southern California
The Dark Side of Norm Change: Legitimizing Targeted Killings and the Challenge for Human Rights
Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
University of California, Irvine

Discussant(s):        Lucia A. Seybert


45-8   Human Trafficking: Developing an Empirical Research Agenda to Inform Policy
Date: Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
Location:     Hilton Kalorama
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.

      Co-sponsored by Practicing Politics Working Group-1


Chair(s):     Ginger Silvera
Claremont Graduate University
Author(s):    Measuring Human Insecurity: A Forecasting Model for Human Trafficking of Minors in the United States
Davina P Durgana

It Takes a Market to Defeat a Market: A Social Network Analytic approach to Trafficking and Anti-Trafficking in Cyberspace
Dave Blair
Georgetown University
Developing Regional Models of Risk in Estimating the Prevalence of Contemporary Slavery
Monti Narayan Datta
University of Richmond
   Kevin Bales
   Roehampton University
The Bitter Side of Chocolate: Understanding Child Trafficking in the West African Cocoa Supply Chain
Shital Thekdi
University of Richmond
   Kevin Bales
   Roehampton University
   Monti Narayan Datta
   University of Richmond

Discussant(s):        Ginger Silvera
Claremont Graduate University


45-9   Information Politics and Human Rights in a Digital Age
Date: Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Location:     Hilton Kalorama
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.


Chair(s):     Mahmood Monshipouri
San Francisco State University
Author(s):    Informational Determinants of Shaming: a Text Analytic Study of Human Rights Reporting
Baekkwan Park
Emory University
Human Rights in the Middle East amid Protest and Change: Charting a Transformed and Shifting Terrain
Shadi Mokhtari
American University
See no Evil, Read no Evil: Measuring the Effects of Imagery and Narrative on Human Rights Attitudes
Joseph Braun
University of Maryland, College Park
   Stephen Arves
   University of Maryland, College Park
The Effects of Information on Intervention to Stop Mass Atrocities
Taylor B. Seybolt

Blinding Leviathan: Whistleblowers/Leakers, Hacktivists, and Human Rights NGO Opposition to Surveillance Programs in Comparative Context
Christian W. Erickson
Cryptx Analytx, LLC

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5-10   Justice and its Discontents: Global Struggles over Human Rights and Legal Accountability
Date: Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 9:30 AM-11:00 AM
Location:     Hilton Columbia 1
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.


Author(s):    Framing Human Rights: Guatemala, Genocide and the Trial of Ríos Montt
Todd Landman
University of Essex
   Thomas John Scotto
   University of Essex
Applying Universal Jurisdiction to Civil Cases: Variations in State Approaches to Monetizing Human Rights Violations
Steven D. Roper
Eastern Illinois University
   Lilian A. Barria
   Eastern Illinois University
Casting a Shadow Over Ongoing Conflicts: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's Impact on Civilian Violence
Jacqueline R. McAllister
Northwestern University
The Worldwide Criminalization of Atrocities in Domestic Legal Systems, 1945-2011
Mark S. Berlin
University of California, Irvine
Determinants of Attitudes towards Mechanisms of Transitional Justice: Evidence from Somalia
Rahma Abdulkadir
New York University-Abu Dhabi

Discussant(s):        Joseph Kling
Saint Lawrence University

45-11   Guns, Butter, Dictators, and Diplomats: What Drives Human Rights Performance?
Date:Saturday, Aug 30, 2014, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Location:Hilton Columbia 4
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.
   Chair(s):Taylor B. Seybolt

Author(s):
An Indirect Casualty: Arms Transfers and Women’s Human Rights
Clair Apodaca

Emerging Democracies and the United Nations Human Rights Council: Real Impact or Smoke and Mirrors?
Michael Joel Voss
North Carolina State University
Do National Human Rights Institutions Improve Human Rights?
Thania Sanchez
Yale University
Export Diversification, Liberalization, and Human Rights
Timothy M. Peterson
University of South Carolina
Revolutionary Leaders and Mass Killings
Nam Kyu Kim
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

45-12   Interests, Accountability, and Influence in the Global Humanitarian Sector
Date:Sunday, Aug 31, 2014, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM Location:Hilton Kalorama
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.
   Chair(s):Michael N. Barnett
George Washington University
Author(s):
Issue Areas or Actors? The Challenges of Studying INGOs as Organizations
Sarah S. Stroup
Middlebury College
   Wendy Wong
   University of Toronto
The Accountable Humanitarian
Michael N. Barnett
George Washington University
   Jessica Luffman Anderson
   George Washington University
Choosing How to Give: Forum Shopping and Foreign Aid Distribution
Andrea L. Everett
University of Georgia
   Daniel C. Tirone
   Louisiana State University
Tragic Choices: Modeling and Estimating the Effects of Competition on the Selection of Humanitarian Aid Recipients
Neil Narang
University of California, Santa Barbara

45-13   Sex, Sexuality, and Human Rights
Date:Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM Location:Omni Calvert Room
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.
  Co-sponsored by 47 Sexuality and Politics-8

  Chair(s):Charles Anthony Smith
University of California, Irvine
Author(s):
Illiberal Democracy in Action: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics in Russia,
E. Perry Ballard
Daytona State College
 From Correction to Protection: How Germany Came to Offer a Legal Third Gender
Angelika von Wahl

Violence, Tolerance and Recognition: Approaches to the LGBTI rights in Turkey
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

   Caryl Nunez
   University of Connecticut
Discussant(s):Charles Anthony Smith
University of California, Irvine
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
University of Miami

45-14   Migration and Human Rights
Date:Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM Location:Hilton Jay
Subject to change. Check the Final Program at the conference.
  Co-sponsored by 52 Migration and Citizenship-8

  Chair(s):Leila Kawar
Bowling Green State University
Author(s):
An Asylum Regime in Flux: Explaining Israel's Exclusionary Policies Toward African Asylum Seekers
Yoav Duman
University of Washington
Norms and Linkages: Understanding Migrant Work Reforms in the Middle East
Lama Mourad
University of Toronto
Asylum Intercepted: Seaborne Migrants & U.S. Immigration Policy
Hillary Allison Mellinger
George Mason University
The Politics of Asylum: An Empirical Analysis of Refugee Characteristics and Asylum Application Outcomes in the European Union
Patricia Charlotte Rodda
University of California, Irvine
Substitute or Complement? The Rise of Alternative Refugee Protection in Asian Civil Society
Won Geun Choi
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Discussant(s):Julie Mostov
Drexel University

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