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

本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研究当地对人权的理解。联合首席调查员将对人权概念在基层的理解、解释、使用和实践进行民族志分析。此外，本研究考察了斯里兰卡关于人权的地方和国家层面的论述，以提供对委员会作为这些不同观点汇合的场所的理解。通过深入访谈、观察和记录斯里兰卡南部失踪委员会相关人员的叙述，本研究将在当地背景下研究人权的概念化。将通过对档案资料的仔细调查，分析各国对委员会关于人权的论述。这将与当地的论述并列，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，这些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.