Digital Witness

Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, Daragh Murray, Amnesty International) Dubberley, Sam (Research Consultant, Research Consultant, Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex and Special Advisor Crisis Response, UC Berkeley) Koenig, Alexa (Executive Director, Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of Essex) Murray, Daragh (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, School of Law & Human Rights Centre

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From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. To say that mobile technologies, social media, and increased connectivity are having a significant impact on human rights practice would be an understatement. Modern technology - and the enhanced access it provides to information about abuse - has the potential to revolutionise human rights reporting and documentation, as well as the pursuit of legal accountability.However, these new methods for information gathering and dissemination have also created significant challenges for investigators and researchers. For example, videos and photographs depicting alleged human rights violations or war crimes are often captured on the mobile phones of victims or political sympathisers. The capture and dissemination of content often happens haphazardly, and for a variety of motivations, including raising awareness of the plight of those who have been most affected, or for advocacy purposes with the goal of mobilising international public opinion. For this content to be of use to investigators it must be discovered, verified, and authenticated. Discovery, verification, and authentication have, therefore, become critical skills for human rights organisations and human rights lawyers.This book is the first to cover the history, ethics, methods, and best-practice associated with open source research. It is intended to equip the next generation of lawyers, journalists, sociologists, data scientists, other human rights activists, and researchers with the cutting-edge skills needed to work in an increasingly digitized, and information-saturated environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-26
Mått175 x 246 x 25 mm
Vikt898 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198836063
Utmärkelser^IChapter 4: Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding^R, was awarded the International Studies Associations 2021 Human Rights Best Paper Award.

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Sam Dubberley is a research consultant with the Human Rights Big Data and Technology project at the University of Essex, and Special Adviser in the Crisis Response team at Amnesty International. Sam worked for more than a decade in broadcast journalism, and was head of News Exchange at the European Broadcasting Union between 2010 and 2013. He is a fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, a founding partner of First Draft News, which gives practical and ethical guidance in how to find, verify and publish content sourced from the social web. He is also a part of the Open Source for Human Rights project team at Swansea University.Alexa Koenig is the executive director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions), and a lecturer at UC, Berkeley. She co-founded the Human Rights Investigations Lab which trains students to use open source methods to advance human rights. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Technology and Human Rights, and a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor. She has a JD from the University of San Francisco and an MA and a PhD from UC Berkeley.Daragh Murray is Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex School of Law and Human Rights Centre, and the Director of the Digital Verification Unit based at the Human Rights Centre Clinic. His research focuses on issues relating to conflict and counter-terrorism, as regulated by the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. He has a particular interest in the regulation and engagement of non-State armed groups, and in the use of technology, particularly in an intelligence agency and law enforcement context. He is a former Government of Ireland IRCHSS Research Scholar, and has a PhD in Law from the University of Essex, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and an MSc in Computer Security and Forensics from Dublin City University.

Aryeh Neier: ForewordSection OneSam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, Daragh Murray: Introduction1: Christoph Koettl, Daragh Murray, Sam Dubberley: The History of the Use of Open Source Investigation for Human Rights Reporting2: Alexa Koenig: The History of Open Source Investigations for Legal Accountability3: Lindsay Freeman: Prosecuting Grave International Crimes Using Open Source Evidence: Lessons from the International Criminal Court4: Ella McPherson, Isabel Guenette Thornton, Matt Mahmoudi: Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding5: Scott Edwards: Open Source Investigations for Human Rights: Current and Future ChallengesSection Two6: Paul Myers: How to Conduct Discovery Using Open Source Methods7: Yvonne Ng: How to Effectively Preserve Open Source Information8: Jeff Deutsch and Niko Para: Targeted Mass Archiving of Open Source Information: A Case Study9: Aric Toler: How to Verify User-Generated Content10: Micah Farfour: The Role and Use of Satellite Imagery in Open Source InvestigationsSection Three11: Zara Rahman and Gabriela Ivens: Ethics in Open Source Investigations12: Sam Dubberley, Margaret Satterthwaite, Sarah Knuckey, Adam Brown: Open Source Investigations: Vicarious Trauma, PTSD, and Tactics for Resilience13: Joseph Guay, Lisa Rudnick: Open Source Investigations: Understanding Digital Threats, Risks, and HarmsSection Four14: Fred Abrahams, Daragh Murray: Open Source Information: Part of the Puzzle15: Alexa Koenig, Lindsay Freeman: Open Source Investigations for Legal Accountability: Challenges and Best Practices

In this compelling volume, beautifully edited by Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, and Daragh Murray - and featuring the contributions of leading scholars, experts, journalists and lawyers - the role technology can now play in sharpening our investigations into gross human rights abuses is examined in commendable detail. The contributors to Digital Witness have, much to their credit, analyzed meticulously all significant and relevant angles. It is a volume that will fast become the standard text for anyone interested in human rights, the collection of evidence in the digital age, and the prosecution of those who perpetrate gross human rights violations.