Rights-informed Mass Grave Mapping
Rights-informed Mass Grave Mapping
Mapping of human rights abuses and international crimes is an increasingly common tool to evidence, preserve and visualise information. This paper asks, what does rights-informed mapping in the context of mass graves look like? What are the rights concerned and allied goals, and how might these practicably apply during a pilot study? The study offers an analysis of the goals and benefits espoused to accrue to mapping and documentation efforts, as well as an explication of rights arising when engaging with mass graves. Our findings underscore the imperative of understanding the full ramifications of the applicable context, in our case the life-cycle of mass graves. This will bring to the fore the rights engaged with the subject as well as the challenges with data points, collation and reporting as experienced in a pilot (Ukraine) where realities on the ground are not static but remain in flux.
international law, mapping, rights, mass graves, data, mass grave, human rights
Klinkner, Melanie
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Smith, Ellie
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Harris, Rebecca
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27 December 2024
Klinkner, Melanie
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Smith, Ellie
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Harris, Rebecca
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Klinkner, Melanie, Smith, Ellie and Harris, Rebecca
(2024)
Rights-informed Mass Grave Mapping.
International Journal of Law in Context.
(doi:10.1017/S1744552324000399).
Abstract
Mapping of human rights abuses and international crimes is an increasingly common tool to evidence, preserve and visualise information. This paper asks, what does rights-informed mapping in the context of mass graves look like? What are the rights concerned and allied goals, and how might these practicably apply during a pilot study? The study offers an analysis of the goals and benefits espoused to accrue to mapping and documentation efforts, as well as an explication of rights arising when engaging with mass graves. Our findings underscore the imperative of understanding the full ramifications of the applicable context, in our case the life-cycle of mass graves. This will bring to the fore the rights engaged with the subject as well as the challenges with data points, collation and reporting as experienced in a pilot (Ukraine) where realities on the ground are not static but remain in flux.
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Submitted date: 17 January 2024
Accepted/In Press date: 14 October 2024
Published date: 27 December 2024
Keywords:
international law, mapping, rights, mass graves, data, mass grave, human rights
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Local EPrints ID: 497595
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/497595
ISSN: 1744-5523
PURE UUID: 742dab9b-30dc-437e-97bc-b2cbf4a41821
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