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The intention of this Educator's Guide
is to make prominent writings of field journalists on war crimes accessible
to youth, young adults, and future decision makers, as well as to inform
the general public.
The first issue of HREA's Research in Human
Rights Education Papers Series has appeared. The paper is a comparative
study on models of human rights training. "Human Rights Training for
Adults: What Twenty-six Evaluation Studies Say About Design, Implementation
and Follow-Up" examines trainings for human rights defenders, police
officers, government officials and the general public. Among its main recommendations
are:
This manual aims to:
- Engage educators currently utilizing
service-learning in the practice of human rights education;
- Enable human rights educators and
trainers to teach through service-learning; and
- Provide the tools and building blocks
for educators to promote human rights education and service-learning far
beyond the scope of the activities included in this manual.
Table of contents:
- Section A, 'A Guide to the Lesson
Plans,' provides a detailed description of how the lesson plans are organized
and tips on how to implement them.
Training
In this e-learning course human rights, humanitarian and development workers will be introduced to the fundamentals of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, including survey design, interviewing and associated techniques for analysis in support of project-based monitoring and evaluation. This course will be helpful for those with modest experience in monitoring and evaluation. Participants are encouraged to come to the course with an instrument and/or associated protocols for analysis that can be developed.
This advanced e-learning course introduces staff members of (international) development agencies and NGOs to child rights-based approaches. A child rights-based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international children’s rights standards and operationally directed to promoting, protecting and fulfilling children’s human rights.
This e-learning course provides participants with advanced knowledge of international humanitarian law and human rights law in armed conflicts. It puts the law of armed conflict in a larger context, traces recent developments and examines how the law responds to contemporary trends in and challenges to regulating the conduct of hostilities, mitigating the consequences of the use of armed force and protecting civilians in armed conflicts and other situations of violence and insecurity.
This course addresses the importance of data to advance gender equality, including safe and ethical techniques for data collection, sharing, and management. Participants will gain an understanding of the various methods and modalities for data collection in development and humanitarian settings.
Topics covered include: sex-disaggregated data, qualitative and quantitative data, data management, safe and ethical data guidance, tools and resources for gender monitoring and evaluation.
Course outline
The increasing trend towards the employment of transitional justice mechanisms after periods of conflict has been the subject of much debate as well as policy scrutiny from feminist scholars and gender practitioners. The field of transitional justice has been identified as important to broadening understanding of the women and conflict discourse and of women's experiences of armed conflict.
