On April 29, the international workshop Interdisciplinary and Multisectoral Human Rights Accountability Research was held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. The hybrid event brought together scholars from Europe and Latin America to collectively reflect on the challenges of conducting research in contexts of violence, impunity, and democratic backsliding.

In preparation for the fieldwork, the Data Justa research team organized a workshop to strengthen the skills needed to handle critical situations involving the emotional impact that may arise during interviews with people who work with victims.

The DATA JUSTA Millennium Nucleus will carry out an in-depth examination of the knowledge infrastructures currently used by the Chilean state in its management of victims of gross human rights violations. Using critical theories and ethnographic methods, the project will analyze the knowledge the state produces about these events and how that knowledge shapes the responses it offers to ‘victimized’ citizens.

Oriana Bernasconi, PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics, researcher and academic at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, is leading the project “Millennium Nucleus for Research on Human Rights Violations Data Production and Use by the State (DATA JUSTA),” which received funding from the Millennium Nucleus of Social Sciences of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID). The project also includes academic Elizabeth Lira, National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2017, and director of the UAH Human Rights Center. 

On August 20, the results of the 2024 Millennium Nucleus Competition for Social Sciences were announced. Three projects submitted by researchers from the Department of Sociology at Alberto Hurtado University were awarded from a total of nine.