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DESCRIPTION:Whose Universality? Conflicting Rights Claims in the Universal 
 Periodic Review of Human Rights. &nbsp\;Michael Beckstrand\, Director of t
 he Conflict Management Center(CMC) and a PhD student in Political Science.
 &nbsp\;\n    The United Nations Universal Periodic Review examines the hum
 an rights practices of every country on a four year cycle. Drawing from th
 e over 20\,000 individual human rights recommendations and the over 3\,400
  NGO stakeholder testimonies from the UPR’s first cycle of state reviews (
 2008- 2012)\, Mike will outline disparate patterns in the salience and acc
 eptance of these purportedly "universal" rights and will discuss the promi
 se and challenges for the continued advancement of human rights through th
 is global mechanism given persistent regional differences.\nConversations 
 in Conflict Studies is a weekly educational speaker series for students\, 
 faculty\, and the community. The series\, sponsored by PARCC\, draws its s
 peakers from Syracuse University faculty\, national and international scho
 lars and activists\, and PhD students. Pizza is served. &nbsp\;Conversatio
 ns in Conflict Studies is a weekly speaker series sponsored by PARCC-Progr
 am for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration.&nbsp\; F
 ollow us @PARCCatMaxwell\, tweet #ConvoInConflict. &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;
    \n
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies presents: Michael Beckstrand
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>Whose Universality? Conflicting R
 ights Claims in the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights. &nbsp\;</b>
 Michael Beckstrand\, Director of the Conflict Management Center(CMC) and a
  PhD student in Political Science.&nbsp\;\n    <br>The United Nations Univ
 ersal Periodic Review examines the human rights practices of every country
  on a four year cycle. Drawing from the over 20\,000 individual human righ
 ts recommendations and the over 3\,400 NGO stakeholder testimonies from th
 e UPR’s first cycle of state reviews (2008- 2012)\, Mike will outline disp
 arate patterns in the salience and acceptance of these purportedly "univer
 sal" rights and will discuss the promise and challenges for the continued 
 advancement of human rights through this global mechanism given persistent
  regional differences.</p>\n<p>Conversations in Conflict Studies is a week
 ly educational speaker series for students\, faculty\, and the community. 
 The series\, sponsored by PARCC\, draws its speakers from Syracuse Univers
 ity faculty\, national and international scholars and activists\, and PhD 
 students. Pizza is served. &nbsp\;Conversations in Conflict Studies is a w
 eekly speaker series sponsored by <a href="https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/par
 cc.aspx" title="PARCC-Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict 
 and Collaboration">PARCC-Program for the Advancement of Research on Confli
 ct and Collaboration</a>.&nbsp\; Follow us <a href="https://twitter.com/PA
 RCCatMaxwell" title="@PARCCatMaxwell">@PARCCatMaxwell</a><a title="New Lin
 k"></a>\, tweet #ConvoInConflict. &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;   <br>\n</p><p><
 /p>
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