Project Description

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is an international research partner of the ‘Transforming Human Rights’ Cluster of Excellence based at the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg and Professor Çalı is a principal investigator of this project.

The cluster is funded for seven years (2026-2033) to pursue research on 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.

The research focuses on three primary questions:

• In what ways do five megatrends that shape our times transform human rights norms, institutions, and practices?
• In what ways do and should human rights norms, institutions, and practices transform responses to these megatrends?
• In what ways do these transformations affect human rights theory and research and require new concepts and approaches?

The research team of the cluster is composed of political scientists, historians, legal scholars, anthropologists, philosophers, geographers, sustainability scholars and computer scientists.

More up to date information on this project will be available on the Cluster of Excellence website.

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