Global Campus of Human Rights Journal vol 1(2017)

Abstract

The inaugural issue of the first volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal consists of two sections: the first containing articles, and the second regional developments.The majority of articles in this issue deal with the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and its impact on human rights. These articles largely draw on papers presented as part of the ‘Global Classroom’, a joint annual event bringing together students and professors from the Regional Master’s programmes of the Global Campus of Human Rights as well as international experts. The Global Classroom aims at fostering closer interaction between students of the different programmes, by organising dedicated activities and providing a virtual environment, a forum for discussion and additional tools of academic interaction. By doing so, this activity intends to develop a more integrated and multilateral form of academic co-ordination across the different curricula of the programmes.
In 2015, the Global Classroom was devoted to the theme ‘Economic crisis, debt and the impact on human rights’. The event took place from 11 to 15 May, in Venice, where the European Master’s is based. This broadly-formulated topic provided an opportunity for researchers from different regions of the globe to explore the nexus between issues of economics, finance, development and human rights and to do so in a way most meaningful for their region. In order to provide flexibility to researchers while also creating an overall unifying structure for the different contributions, the methodology asked researchers to consider the norms, processes and the actors at play within their chosen topics and to conclude with recommendations on how to improve the situation under review.

The second issue of the first volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. It consists of three parts: a part containing articles of a general nature; a part consisting of articles all centred around a special focus; and a part discussing recent developments in human rights and democratisation in various regions of the world.