Andrew Searle - M4C

Andrew Searle

History, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

Amnesty International’s Opposition to Torture: Norms, Advocacy, Agnotology and the Domestication of Human Rights, 1961-1979

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Research Area

History

Conferences

Round Table presentation on 'The Human Right to Dominate', as part of a conference entitled Human Rights in the 21st Century: Developing Rights in a Developing World, University of Birmingham (2018). My paper discussed Gordon and Perugini's book contending that Human Rights advocacy can be misappropriated by the regimes that violate them.

Other Research Interests

My areas of academic interest include:

Human Rights Activism
Humanitarianism
Greater Syria, Palestine and Transjordan from the Mandate period until early 2000
United Nations / League of Nations
Refugees and displaced people

Memberships

I am a member of the Royal Historical Society.