Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data (Enhanced DVD)
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Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data (Enhanced DVD) Gauging human rights around the world requires a careful, delicate, and measured approach that identifies who is responsible and why they behaved in such a reprehensible way. In this informative DVD, "Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data," the quantitative approach is discussed in-depth as a potential solution to tracking human right violations around the world.
This feature-length documentary follows Dr. Patrick Ball and the way his statistics-based approach has helped track human rights violations and brought those who violated them to justice. For example, it discusses the way that Ball and his group (the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group) helped track the migration of Albanians from Yugoslavia during its civil war, and helped bring to light Slobodan Milosovic's role in violating the human rights of his own people. It was particularly effective in showcasing how the military was used to target the indigenous people of the area for genocide.
This DVD makes a strong case for the use of statistics and a data-driven approach to understanding human rights violations. Through a variety of interviews, examinations of the methods used, and examples that expand beyond the Yugoslavian conflict (including a detailed look at the recent Liberian troubles), viewers will get an illuminating, if troubling, look into the people who are ignoring human rights, why these violations exist, and what is being done to help stem their tide.
Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data
This feature-length documentary follows Dr. Patrick Ball and the way his statistics-based approach has helped track human rights violations and brought those who violated them to justice. For example, it discusses the way that Ball and his group (the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group) helped track the migration of Albanians from Yugoslavia during its civil war, and helped bring to light Slobodan Milosovic's role in violating the human rights of his own people. It was particularly effective in showcasing how the military was used to target the indigenous people of the area for genocide.
This DVD makes a strong case for the use of statistics and a data-driven approach to understanding human rights violations. Through a variety of interviews, examinations of the methods used, and examples that expand beyond the Yugoslavian conflict (including a detailed look at the recent Liberian troubles), viewers will get an illuminating, if troubling, look into the people who are ignoring human rights, why these violations exist, and what is being done to help stem their tide.
Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data
- Enhanced DVD
- ISBN: 978-0-81608-987-1
- Run Time: 71 Minutes
- Copyright Date: 2013
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Solving for X is a documentary about a quantitative approach to human rights data and information. The film shows the work of Dr. Patrick Ball who is the leader of the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Ball is based out of Silicon Valley and he travels throughout the world to help those who support human rights apply advanced computer analysis to different human rights events. There are three examples of this type of quantitative approach which are highlighted in this film.
The first event is the major migration of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo which occurred during the war in Yugoslavia. Dr. Ball utilized a statistical analysis of this event which was actually presented during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague. A statistical report that was produced for Guatemala’s UN Commission for Historical Clarification was used to change the mainstream public’s understanding of the role of the military in Guatemala’s 36 year conflict. It was previously believed that the military was protecting the public from communism, when in reality it was targeting the indigenous ethnic Mayans for genocide. The final case involves the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Liberia which attempts to interpret perpetrator and victim narratives.
Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights DataEnhanced DVD ISBN: 978-0-81608-987-1 Run Time: 71 Minutes Copyright Date: 2013 CC
The first event is the major migration of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo which occurred during the war in Yugoslavia. Dr. Ball utilized a statistical analysis of this event which was actually presented during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague. A statistical report that was produced for Guatemala’s UN Commission for Historical Clarification was used to change the mainstream public’s understanding of the role of the military in Guatemala’s 36 year conflict. It was previously believed that the military was protecting the public from communism, when in reality it was targeting the indigenous ethnic Mayans for genocide. The final case involves the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Liberia which attempts to interpret perpetrator and victim narratives.
Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data
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