Sustainable post-crisis development: the need for a human rights approach
Speakers
Chair
The dialogue will bring together researchers from the LSE Department of International Development and practitioners from Amnesty International, International Secretariat (IS) & UK Section (AIUK) to share knowledge on putting policy into practice while centring the human experience in development.
The discussion will focus on how robust evidence can inform design, implementation and evaluation of policies that uphold human rights and improve development outcomes under real-world constraints. It creates a forum where academic insights meet front-line experience so that research findings are translated into actionable approaches, with attention to ethics, accountability, and the lived realities of affected communities.
Keynote speaker:
Agnès Callamard is Secretary General at Amnesty International. She leads the organization’s human rights work and is its chief spokesperson. Agnès has been a prominent figure in the human rights world for decades. In 2016, she was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary killings. Along with her UN work, Agnès was also the Director of Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University in New York.
About the panel:
Polly Truscott is Amnesty International UK’s lead on International Affairs. She has 30 years’ experience of international human rights law and humanitarian work, including with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the International Rescue Committee, based in London, New York, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Areas of expertise include human rights-centred UK foreign policy and UN human rights mechanisms.
Chiara Liguori is Head of the Rise of Authoritarian Practices Hub at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, leading a programme that catalyses new ideas and approaches to counter the rise of authoritarianism across the world. She has long-standing experience in climate justice, human rights, social justice and development, having worked across policy, advocacy and research for Amnesty International, Oxfam GB and the UN in London, Mexico, Haiti and Comoros.
Dr Myfanwy James is an Assistant Professor in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies at LSE. Her work examines the politics of humanitarian intervention in contexts of conflict and displacement, with a regional focus on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Using ethnographic and historical methods, she has conducted research on how humanitarians negotiate their access with armed groups, the experience of locally hired humanitarians in security management, structures of inequality in aid, as well as the contested legitimacy of medical research in epidemic contexts. Her work has been published in Third World Quarterly, Development and Change, Medical Anthropology, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Disasters, Social Science and Medicine, and Journal of Humanitarian Affairs.
Meet our chair:
Stuart Gordon is Professor in Managing Humanitarianism at LSE. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, heads the LSE Humanitarian Research Group, directs the Department of International Development’s humanitarian consultancy programmes, and sits on the editorial board of Disasters.
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