| Start Date: | 11/14/2012 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/14/2012 | End Time: | 5:00 PM |
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Event Description
College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Seminar: Speaking Stats to Power: Human Rights Organizations and Numerical Evidence
Speaker: Dr. Amelia Hoover Green, assistant professor, history and politics
Did the violence in Darfur during 2003-2004 constitute genocide? Were the killings and forced displacement that occurred in Kosovo during 1999 "widespread and systematic?" How common is rape during armed conflict? All these questions have statistical answers, and the availability of statistical answers is changing the way the human rights community does its work.
Dr. Hoover Green studies human rights violations during armed conflict, and has served as a statistical consultant to war crimes trials, independent human rights organizations and the UN. In this talk, she will "show and tell" how statistics have changed debates about human rights in Guatemala, Kosovo, Sudan, Liberia and other countries that have experienced armed conflict. She will also consider some of the difficulties and dangers of relying on statistics as evidence of human rights violations.
This event is free and open to the Drexel community. Light refreshments will be served. |
Contact Information:
Name: Diane Ketler
Phone: 215-895-5976
Email: dk882@drexel.edu |
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Location:
Disque Hall, Room 109 |
Audience:
AlumniCurrent StudentsFacultyParents & FamiliesProspective StudentsPublicStaff |
Special Features:
Free Food |
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