The School of International Development at the University of East Anglia presents a workshop on epistemological issues in international development. This workshop targets PhD students of development studies and related disciplines and is free to PGR students, whether ESRC funded or otherwise, at all SeNSS affiliated institutions.

Data about mass violence can seem to offer insights into patterns: is violence getting better, or worse, over time? Is violence directed more against men or women? But in human rights data collection, we (usually) don’t know what we don’t know --- and worse, what we don’t know is likely to be systematically different from what we do know.