Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human Rights as a Cultural Practice: An Ethnographic Study of a Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka

这篇论文的研究将在斯里兰卡最近结束的失踪委员会的背景下审查当地对人权的理解。联合首席调查员将对在基层理解、解释、使用和实践的人权概念进行人种学分析。此外，这项研究还考察了斯里兰卡地方和国家一级关于人权的论述，以了解委员会是这些不同观点的汇合点。通过深入访谈、观察和记录参与斯里兰卡南部失踪问题委员会人员的叙述，这项研究将研究人权在当地背景下的概念化。将通过仔细调查档案资料，分析国家人权与人权委员会之间的关系。这将与当地讨论并列，以提供对委员会的科学理解。这项研究有助于了解当代斯里兰卡，并提供了对人权和“委员会”的民族志理解，人权和“委员会”已成为跨国法律程序的组成部分。

This dissertation research will examine the local understanding of human rights within the context of the recently concluded Disappearances Commission in Sri Lanka. The Co-principal investigator will provide an ethnographic analysis of the concept of human rights as understood, interpreted, used, and practiced at the grass roots level. Moreover, this research examines the local and national level discourses on human rights in Sri Lanka to provide an understanding of the Commission as a site of convergence of these different perspectives. Through in-depth interviews, observations, and recording of narratives of those who were involved in the Disappearances Commission in southern Sri Lanka, this research will study the conceptualization of human rights within the local context. The national discourse on human rights vis-a-vis the Commission will be analyzed through a careful investigation of archival sources. This will be juxtaposed against the local discourse to provide a scientific understanding of the Commission. This research contributes towards an understanding of contemporary Sri Lanka and provides an ethnographic understanding of human rights and "commissions" which have become an integral part of transnational legal processes.