{"id":105,"date":"2025-12-12T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:19:09","slug":"forschung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/en\/forschung\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Shedding light on the potential and limitations of human rights<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To achieve this goal, we will describe, analyze, and assess how five megatrends, namely autocratization, fragmented economic globalization, international migration, planetary environmental crises and digitalization are transforming human rights, and how in turn human rights can and should transform responses to the megatrends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research focuses on three primary questions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In what ways do five megatrends that shape our times transform human rights norms, institutions, and practices?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> In what ways do and should human rights norms, institutions, and practices transform responses to these megatrends?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In what ways do&nbsp;these transformations affect human rights theory and research and require new concepts and approaches?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will operationalize our research through three central dimensions of human rights norms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>rights-holders and duty-bearers of human rights (Who?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>content and scope of human rights obligations (What?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>modes of realization and accountability (How?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cluster\u2019s approach rests on an understanding of human rights that draws on legal, social scientific, and philosophical perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will therefore pursue multi- and interdisciplinary research as well as transdisciplinary approaches involving practitioners in order to innovate human rights scholarship. We will engage in empirical, conceptual, and normative analyses of human rights transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cluster will be hosted by FAU, the only university in Germany with an established institutional focus on human rights. Over the past fifteen years, FAU has made continuous strategic investments to advance this important field, including by creating new professorships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on this, the unique multidisciplinary group of scholars who make up this Cluster will elevate human rights research at FAU to the next level, create outstanding programs for early-career researchers and international fellows, and thus shape the university\u2019s overall profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can access more information in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/02\/EXC-3039-Transforming-Human-Rights-Research-Agenda.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/files\/2026\/02\/EXC-3039-Transforming-Human-Rights-Research-Agenda.pdf\">our research agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-cta \"><div class=\"rrze-elements-cta no-image \"><div class=\"cta-content\"><span class=\"cta-title\">FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU CHREN)<\/span><span class=\"cta-subtitle\">The FAU CHREN is an association of academics from various faculties and disciplines who contribute to research on regional, national, and international developments in the field of human rights. 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