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SUMMARY:Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violation
 s in the Digital Age - Sam Dubberley\, manager of Amnesty International's 
 Digital Verification Corps\, and Alexa Koenig\, Executive Director of the 
 Human Rights Center\, UC Berkeley School of Law
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 *\n\nThe Digital Verification Corps is a new research model from Amnesty I
 nternational to involve and train university campuses in open source human
  rights investigation to assist Amnesty's research goals and the human rig
 hts community in general. It's currently working with over 70 students at 
 four university campuses around the globe - including UC Berkeley.\n\nFrom
  Syria to the Democratic Republic of Congo to Mexico\, it's increasingly d
 ifficult for human rights researchers to operate on the ground and investi
 gate reports of human rights violations.  Simultaneously\, access to camer
 a-enabled mobile phones and mobile internet has grown globally. Human righ
 ts organisations now have to use content captured on mobile phones and sha
 red on social media to investigate events. \n\nHow has digitalisation chan
 ged investigating\, verifying and reporting on human rights violations? Ho
 w have digital sources and big data been successful in investigating human
  rights violations? How can digital techniques be used in human rights wor
 k to affect change\, address attribution of responsibility and fight impun
 ity? What are the pitfalls and ethical concerns with using digital sources
  in human rights investigations?  What are the successes and challenges of
  Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps as it evaluates its fi
 rst year of activity.\n\n\nSam Dubberley (King's 1995) is the manager of A
 mnesty International's Digital Verification Corps - which has trained a ne
 twork of students globally to monitor and verify open source data for use 
 in monitoring human rights abuses. He is also a research consultant on the
  Human Rights and Big Data project at the University of Essex in the UK an
 d the editor of CrossCheck - an initiative uniting 32 mainstream news orga
 nisations to monitor and report on social media content during the French 
 presidential elections.  He has published widely on the use of social medi
 a and human rights and journalism. Previously\, he was a research fellow o
 f the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and managed
  the newsroom of the European Broadcasting Union.\n\nAlexa Koenig is the E
 xecutive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur
  Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a Lecturer-in-Residenc
 e at UC Berkeley School of Law\, where she teaches classes on human rights
  and international criminal law. She is most recently the author\, with Vi
 ctor Peskin and Eric Stover\, of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War
  Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (UC Press\, 2016)\; the edi
 tor\, with Keramet Reiter\, of Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in 
 Detention\, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement (Palgrave MacMillan\, 2
 015)\; and a contributor to The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequen
 ces of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices (UC Press\, 2009).
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
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