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“What Truth? Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

7-9 September 2026, Tarragona (Spain)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The DISSECT research project (ERC) is devoted to the study of evidence in international human rights adjudication\u2014defined as the three human rights regional courts and related commissions, as well as the quasi-judicial UN treaty bodies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on truth and truth-seeking, DISSECT\u2019s final conference will reflect upon the following questions:\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Should the pursuit of factual truth be considered an essential function of human rights adjudication? Why\/why not?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    1. How are the various adjudicatory institutions studied approaching truth-seeking? What factors may account for divergences in their approaches?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. How do jurisprudential tools\u2014evidentiary concepts, rules or principles\u2014facilitate the establishment of the true facts of cases? Can such tools also serve to suppress factual truth?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        1. What role do extra-legal\u2014social, political, historical, cultural, economic, organisational, etc.\u2014factors play in the evidentiary processes studied?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Truth being multi-dimensional, which of its many possible facets\u2014as, e.g., objective or subjective, forensic or impressionistic, whole or partial, procedural or substantive, personal or collective\u2014should concern human rights adjudication?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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            1. How do various understandings of truth interact and compete in actual proceedings?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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              1. Given the many deceptions that enter some proceedings, would it be useful to think of evidence in human rights adjudication as a Foucauldian regime of truth as well as one of falsity?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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                1. Does our post-truth era of \u2018unknowers\u2019 and epistemic distrust lend increased saliency to the above questions?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

                  We invite scholars and practitioners of various backgrounds and experiences to contribute a research paper based on any valid\u202fresearch method, including, in a non-exhaustive list:\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n