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

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

Author: Shareen Hertel; Mark Gibney; Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035336104
Published In: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Introduction: networking for human rights 1

Bonny Ibhawoh, Shareen Hertel and Mark Gibney

PART I NETWORKING WITHIN ACADEMIA

Networking for academic freedom: issues and challenges 9

George Andreopoulos

Academic networking for human rights: research chairs as social capital 24

Alison Brysk

On (not) networking while female 37

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

An interview with Bert Lockwood 45

Bert Lockwood with Mark Gibney

Academic networks as research and learning communities 53