Human Rights Institute concludes one of its greatest research projects

  • Tarongers Institutes Support Unit
  • April 5th, 2022
 
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The Human Rights Institute of the Universitat de València (IDH-UV) concludes its research project "Human security in the international and European framework: towards an inclusive and plural citizenship" (Prometeo Project 2018/156) with the celebration of a final conference on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th April. The Prometeo programme is an initiative of the Valencian Government to promote excellence research groups.

In this conference, which will take place at the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València, the final results of this research, which has lasted three years, has had a budget of 276,000 euros and has generated more than thirty scientific articles in academic publications, will be presented.

Throughout these years, the research group co-directed by professors Consuelo Ramón and Emilia Bea has focused its work on analysing and responding to some of the main challenges to European security, understood in terms of human security and therefore, they point out, "global, interconnected and multidimensional". The main objectives of the research have been issues linked to the threat of jihadist terrorism, such as the return to European - and Spanish - territory of fighters recruited by ISIS. Also the study of responses to phenomena such as radicalisation that occur within immigrant communities that have been settled for many years (more recently, in the case of our country), in the face of which there has been - for example, in France - an attempt to legislate to counteract what are understood to be "separate communities", which threaten social cohesion.

In addition to the scientific work, which has taken the form of expert meetings and research stays in specialised centres, as well as various publications, the research group has made an effort to disseminate and raise public awareness of the debates connected with these issues, through the organisation of various conferences and congresses.

The conference has a wide range of panels made up of speakers of a very high level and national and international prestige. Various members of the project's research group will take part in them with the aim of combining the public presentation of the research results with critical reflection with other experts.

The sessions will begin on Thursday 7th April at 4 p.m. in the assembly hall of the Department of Philosophy of Law, at the Faculty of Law, with an inaugural conference given by Professor Javier de Lucas. This will be followed by two panels on business and human rights and corruption in Equatorial Guinea, respectively. At 9 a.m. the following morning, panels will continue on international and European security, the fight against impunity and, finally, social rights.

The organisers advise, for capacity reasons, to register for the sessions through the form available on the Project's Research Group website (https://gisedde.es) or on the Institute of Human Rights website (https://www.idhuv.es).

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