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CASPA Cosponsoring Seminar on Thursday, May 17 |
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| Posted by: | Art Kendall |
| Title/Position: | President |
| School/Organization: | Social Research Consultants |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | May 13th, 2007 |
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Please forward/circulate to potentially interested people.
Capital Area Social Psychological Association
(Members from DC, MD, VA, DE, WV, PA)
We are proud to co-sponsor an interdisciplinary seminar. Let's make this a real success. Invite your colleagues. Give your students credit for attending.
Art Kendall
President
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Title: The Role of Statistics and Statisticians in Human Rights
Speakers: David Banks Duke University; Gary Shapiro, Westat; Paul Zador, Westat
Chair: Ariela Bl"tter, Director, Crisis Preparedness and Response Center, Amnesty International
Discussant: Erik Voeten, Department of Political Science, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Date/Time: Thursday, May 17, 2007 / 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Location: AAAS Headquarters Auditorium, 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC 20005
To RSVP, please submit your name, professional affiliation, and the title of the seminar to shrp@aaas.org (even if your name is already on the BLS visitor list).
Sponsors:
--Human Rights Section, Washington Statistical Society (WSS)
--Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (SHR-AAAS)
--Washington-Baltimore Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (DC-AAPOR)
--Capital Area Social Psychological Association (CASPA)
--District of Columbia Sociological Society (DCSS)
--District of Columbia Psychological Association (DCPA)
Who Should Attend: Human rights activists, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, survey researchers, researchers of unsettled populations, and statisticians
Abstract: This seminar, designed with human rights practitioners in mind, outlines some examples of situations in which statisticians were asked to contribute to human rights projects. Our hope is to allow networking between the statistical community and the human rights community so that the unique contributions that statisticians can make towards human rights advocacy will be utilized in the future.
David Banks - A Katrina Experience
In 2005 the NSF sponsored a number of research projects on the aftermath of Katrina. This talk describes a survey led by Duke, UNC-Charlotte, and Tulane to study the factors that affected whether or not New Orleans residents chose to evacuate in advance of the storm, and what factors affected their post-Katrina experience. As part of this effort we found that some aspects of classic survey methodology do not work well with unsettled populations, and we developed workarounds that often were surprisingly successful.
Gary Shapiro - Guatemala Police Records
Several warehouses were discovered in Guatemala that contain millions of documents belonging to the National Police prior to 1996. The documents are of interest because some provide information on instances of police violence. The Human Rights Data Analysis Group at Benetech was asked to provide technical assistance for understanding and analyzing the archives. In turn, a group of ASA members provided assistance to Benetech on how sampling of these documents could be done. This talk discusses the complex structure of the archives, the sampling that is now being done, and the type of assistance provided to Benetech.
Paul Zador - Darfur What Could Have Been
Several estimates of deaths during the Darfur crisis will be summarized. The methods used to derive them, and their reliability, will be reviewed and critiqued based in part on comments recently published in GAO's report on the Darfur crisis. The question will be raised: How do we determine the practical difference having precise disaster estimates of deaths, hunger, injuries, etc. might make? A volunteer group designed a survey of refugee camps in Chad, but the survey was never conducted. We will describe the survey's design, and discuss why it never happened.
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