Global Campus of Human Rights. Annual Report 2024
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Abstract
Why choose multi-focused learning
experiences held or designed in varied
contexts, with participants from different
national and professional backgrounds? The
answer relates to the very idea of knowledge as
multifaceted. Understanding can be (1) factual,
based on information and data; (2) procedural,
“knowing-how” to do something by following
steps; (3) performative, derived from practical
training; or (4) experiential, acquired through
trial and error. This idea of learning can also be
presented as the distinction between explicit
knowledge –easily documented and therefore
easily transferable– and tacit knowledge,
derived from skills and intuitions acquired
through interaction, and therefore more
complex to attain, and therefore more valuable.
Indeed, explicit knowledge can be transmitted
through documents, data bases and seminars.
It can be rapidly streamlined via Artificial
Intelligence. On the contrary, tacit knowledge
is interwoven in the lore and memories of
experts with relevant experience. This kind of
knowledge, laden with intuition and appraisal,
is organic in nature (not engineered) and
thus essential to understanding why the
same (human or public policy) intervention
is effective in one context and a resounding
failure in another context.
This annual report provides data and materials
on how during the 2023-2024 cycle the
Global Campus has produced and exchanged
multifaceted knowledge with students, alumni
and strategic partners all over the world
through its hubs in Europe, the Balkans, Africa,
Asia-Pacific, the Caucasus, Latin America
& the Caribbean, the Arab World and Central
Asia. As shown in the Report, the Global
Campus community continues to connect
academic knowledge, education and capacity
building as pillars to sustain democracy and
human rights in increasingly challenging
regional and global contexts for the protection
of individual and collective rights, where
learning and well-informed decision-making
are more important than ever before.
On behalf of the governing bodies of the Global
Campus of Human Rights –its Assembly of
nearly a hundred participating universities and
its Council— it is an honour for me to share this
Annual Report with our readers.
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