Geo-Data for the Digital Documentation of Human Rights Violations (BMBF GeoDatRights)
Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: BMBF GeoDatRights
Start date : 01.09.2022
End date : 31.08.2025
Project details
Scientific Abstract
The project "Geo-Data for the Digital Documentation of Human Rights Violations" (GeoDatRights) aims to a) use satellite-based remote sensing and social media data to investigate the destruction and military appropriation of educational institutions in war zones, and b) establish digital analysis skills in German-language human rights research over the course of the project. FAU already has a distinctive human rights profile and aims to expand it in a forward-looking way.
In the GeoDatRights project, we are testing the harnessing of satellite-based remote sensing and further (geo-)data esp. from social media for this purpose, building on interdisciplinary cooperation between human rights research in political sciences and geography to tap methodological expertise from digital geography for empirical human rights research.
Involved:
Georg Glasze
Project Leader
Katrin Kinzelbach
Project Leader
Blake Walker
Project Leader
Lama Ranjous
Project Member
Raphaela Edler
Project Member
Contributing FAU Organisations:
Chair in Cultural Geography
Professur für Geographie (Digitale Geographie / Kulturgeographie)
Institut für Geographie
Professor of International Politics of Human Rights
