DDR: Human Rights and the Idea of Africa: An Ethnography of International Legal Practice

这个项目考察了普遍主义和文化相对主义在非洲人权体系中的存在。该项目采用人种学方法，包括访谈和参与观察，以及分析非洲人权和人民权利委员会的判例法，探讨个人在非洲人权系统中的作用和资源。它调查了个人的背景和个人属性如何影响他们对非洲人权制度的文化特征的看法，并审查了人权在多大程度上是非洲集体认同形成的一部分。这个项目增加了目前对人权机构、法律实践国际化和法律人类学的研究。通过分析人权法在不断变化的地缘政治格局中的作用，该项目将产生更广泛的影响，包括利用人权解决冲突，在超国家集体身份的表达中部署权利，以及人权作为全球宪政出现的一个方面。它还对非洲人权的社会法律研究作出贡献，并对现有的非洲人权结构的程序进行社会科学评价。

This project examines the presence of ideas of universalism and cultural relativism in the African human rights system. Using ethnographic methods, including interviews and participant observation, and analysis of the case law of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the project addresses individuals' roles and resources in the African human rights system. It investigates how individuals' backgrounds and personal attributes impact their views of the cultural characteristics of the African human rights system, and examines the extent to which human rights are a part of the formation of an African collective identity. This project adds to current research on human rights institutions, the internationalization of legal practice, and the anthropology of law. The project will have a broader impact by analyzing the role of human rights law in a changing geopolitical landscape, including the use of human rights to solve conflicts, the deployment of rights in the articulation of supranational collective identities, and human rights as an aspect of the emergence of global constitutionalism. It also contributes to socio-legal studies on human rights in Africa, and offers the existing African human rights structure a social scientific assessment of its procedures.