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New publication: “What’s new in human rights doctoral research” Vol. VII - A collection of critical literature reviews

Book cover What's new in human rights doctoral research. A collection of critical literature review: Volume VII, 2025

Vol. VII of the collection of critical literature reviews “What’s new in human rights doctoral research” is officially out . This book (open access) collects 5 state-of-the-art analyses prepared by Ph.D. students addressing human rights-related topics in their respective doctoral programmes. 

These works show an interesting shift in the interests of our human rights-focused scholar community. The research projects that motivated these chapters address social and institutional practices and mechanisms that contribute to the cause of human rights and represent practical tools that support struggles for justice and peace. Rather than interrogating on the ‘ontology’ of human rights, the contributions presented here delve into their ‘ontic’, elaborating on objects in relative isolation from an overarching human rights narrative.

The series "What's new in human rights doctoral research" seeks to provide fresh insights into the topics, methods and perspectives that early doctoral researchers deem relevant in the increasingly wide and transdisciplinary field of human rights scholarship.Each volume collects a set of critical literature reviews prepared at the end of their first year by human rights doctoral students. 

 

The Vol. VII includes the following research articles:

Alek Barović, Genocide, Memory, Religion and Identity: A Review.

Sara Lina KamounTowards a More Coherent Approach to Peacebuilding. The primacy of CommunityOriented Security in Post-Conflict.

Denise ZucchiniVocational Guidance 5.0: an Instrument for Peace Education: Towards an Integrated Vision of Work, Social Responsibility, and Sustainable Development.

Asude OrukluTackling Severe Labour Exploitation Through Non-Judicial Pathways: A Literature Review on Effectiveness of Non-State Based Grievance Mechanisms and Key Characteristics of Severe Labour Exploitation.

Elisa Gamba, The Inclusion of Refugees and Students at Risk in the Higher Education System:a Literature Review.

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human rights research Ph.D Programme

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Human Rights Centre UNESCO Chair International Joint PhD Programme