The SERN Spring 2024 Workshop was hosted by the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on May 3, 2024. More information about the day's events can be found in the program below.
9:00-9:30am Arrival, Coffee & Refreshments 9:30-9:45am Welcome and Introductions 9:45-10:30am Talk I "Mental Health as a Concern for the Implementation of the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities" Tina Kempin Reuter, Shanshan Lian & Kala Bhattar (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
10:40am-12:00pm Panel I "How Geospatial Proximity Affects NGOs’ Philanthropic Funding: The Case of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" Shanshan Lian (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Jason Lian (University of Georgia)
"Community Victimization in Africa: Addressing the Problem of Conflicting Normative Values in Foreign Direct Investment in Liberia and Sierra Leone" Odion Omovbude (Kennesaw State University)
"Exploring Human Rights Realities: NGO Interventions for Women's Empowerment in Northern Ghana's Witch Camps" Anthoanette Kommeh (Kennesaw State University)
12:00pm Lunch served 12:30-1:15pm Keynote Panel: Research Labs in the Study of Human Rights and Democracy Violence and Identity Lab Kiela Crabtree (Emory University)
GLOBIS Human Rights Research Lab Chad Clay (University of Georgia)
Pollitik RyanCarlin (Georgia State University)
1:30-2:50pm Panel II "Voter Backlash and Elite Defections: A Path to Undermining Authoritarian Stability" Hilal Sert (Georgia State University) & Burak Kazim Yilmaz (Emory University)
"Differentiating the Military Interventions: Effects on Democracy" Botan Buran & Efe Coban (Georgia State University)
"Do States with Greater LGBTQ Inequality Engage in More Conflict? 'Gendered Conflict' Revisited" Kiana Bussa (University of Georgia)
3:00-4:20pm Panel III "Human Rights Shaming and Government Framing: Shaping Public Opinion on Human Rights Violations" Ida Braad Albek (University of Georgia)
"Evolving Uses of the Human Rights Doctrines of Self-Determination and of the Responsibility to Protect" Chip Carey (Georgia State University)
"An Attention Game? Research on Protest Reporting in International News Media" Jason Lian (University of Georgia)