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Systems Thinking Framework

Systems Thinking Framework and the Discourse on Rights

Human Rights, as a topic of inquiry and a social event, is a complex problem that cannot be solved through simple answers. Researchers, scholars, experts, and professionals, irrespective of their vocational training and areas of expertise, often engage with the question of human rights, because their, ultimately, touches on human rights. Unlikely other topics of human concern, where interest is driven by the need to directly and purposefully produced a desired outcome, our interest in human rights was driven by the need to prevent something from happening: human rights abuse. Because of this distinction, much work must be done not to identify the determinant system that produces human rights abuses, but the contributory systems that result in human rights abuses. This explains the varying interests in human rights across disciplines and vocations. For this and other reasons that are discussed on this platform, the systems thinking framework, or more accurately some Principles of the Systems Thinking Framework, presents itself as the most appropriate lens through which the production of knowledge on the subject of human rights.

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