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  UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace (761), established in 2007 at The University of Maastricht (Netherlands)
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Fields / Disciplines

Human rights and peace.

Objectives
  • To promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of human rights and peace.
  • It will serve as a means of facilitating collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions in The Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe and North America, and in other regions of the world.
  • The purpose of this Chair shall also be to contribute to strengthening teaching, research, transfer and dissemination of knowledge and capacity-building in the field of human rights, in particular social, economic and cultural rights.
  • The Chair explicitly aims at giving fresh impetus to new research themes that are challenging, relevant from society oriented perspective and interdisciplinary.


Host Institution

The University of Maastricht (Netherlands)Website


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Social and Human Sciences

  
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