Tom Porteous - Methods and Ethics of Human Rights Research

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice along with the Haas Center for Public Service presented Human Rights in Community: Methods and Ethics Featuring Human Rights Watch's Tom Porteous on May 26.

Tom Porteous, deputy program director at Human Rights Watch, discussed the organization’s methodology and approaches to ethical field work, including the importance of informed consent, interviewing traumatized populations, the challenges of working remotely, and considerations for populations on the move.

Before joining HRW in 2006, Porteous served as conflict management adviser for Africa in the UK’s Foreign Office, worked in UN peacekeeping operations in Somalia and Liberia, and served as a freelance correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, the BBC, and other media, first in Cairo and later in Berlin, Algeria, and Morocco.

Видео Tom Porteous - Methods and Ethics of Human Rights Research канала Stanford Global Studies