Learning With and From Grassroots Rights Defenders

Learning With and From Grassroots Rights Defenders

Join us for a panel discussion and reception spotlighting the work of the Accountability Research Center (ARC).

ARC bridges research and grassroots perspectives to advance strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. One way it does this is to learn with and from grassroots rights defenders, bolstering broad-based social and civic constituencies for accountability.

Joining the panel are five members of the ARC team, who will share insights on the approach and reflect on learning with and from grassroots rights defenders in Colombia, Guatemala, and the Philippines.

A reception (18.30-19.30) will offer an opportunity for further conversation with the whole ARC team over light refreshments.

Panel host

Judy Gearhart, SIS Research Professor

Welcoming remarks

Dean Shannon Hader, SIS

Panelists

Jonathan Fox, ARC director and SIS Professor

• ARC’s approach to learning with and from grassroots rights defenders

Walter Flores, SIS Research Professor

• Learning with and from health rights defenders, Guatemala

Mariana Cepeda and Helmer Quiñones, ARC researchers

• Learning with and from defenders of the rights and territories of Afro-descendant communities in Colombia

Joy Aceron, ARC researcher and Founder-Director, G-Watch

• Learning with and from ‘G-Watchers’ – grassroots citizen monitoring groups defending the right to public services in the Philippines

Photo courtesy of ACADESAN.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

School of International Services, American University, Abrahamson Family Founders Room, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States