The Right to Research: Engaging Participatory Methods in Contexts of State Violence
How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice?
In-Person Event
Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 225
9:00 am – 5:45 pm EDT
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How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice? This full day workshop will feature presentations from academic and community researchers about innovative participatory research projects on state violence in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Panels and discussions will identify the distinctive challenges that state violence poses for the conduct of research, examine how research can contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice, and highlight strategies and methodologies used by researchers and activists to establish effective and enduring collaborative relationships and research projects.
This event is part of the What Justice Looks Like Series, a discussion series centering the voices of grassroots activists and affected communities in policy making, and is co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Tufts University.
Agenda
Breakfast
8:30-9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
9:00 AM
Yanilda González (Harvard University); Anjuli Fahlberg (Tufts University)
Session 1
Participatory-Action Research in Contexts of State and Urban Violence I
9:15- 10:30 AM
Presenters: Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University; Cristiane Martins and Mirian Andrade, Building Together Research Collective (Brazil); Katherine García (El Salvador) and Laura García (Honduras)
Session 2
Participatory-Action Research in Contexts of State and Urban Violence II
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Presenters: Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College (Mexico); Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University; Candy Chevez (Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas) and James Alexander Melenge Escudero (El Salvador)
Lunch
12:15-1:15 PM
Session 3
Intersectionality and Arts-Based Collaborative Research
1:15- 2:30 PM
Presenters: Mauri Balanta Jaramillo, Universidad Icesi and Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Colombia); Nadia Mosquera Muriel, UNC Chapel Hill (Venezuela)
Session 4
Activist-Researcher Partnerships for Advocacy
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Presenters: Raiane Assumpção, Federal University of São Paulo; Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May (Brazil); Janice Gallagher, Rutgers University; Nancy Rosete, Defenders of the Dignity of our Disappeared (Mexico)
Session 5
In Our Own words: Narratives and Storytelling Approaches
4:30 - 5:45 PM
Presenters: Amarilys Estrella, Rice University; Ana Belique, Movimiento Reconoci.do (Dominican Republic)