Global Campus of Human Rights. Annual Report 2024

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. 04 Global