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Starlight Stadium: Episode 3

          Starlight Stadium: Episode 3

Welcome to Episode 3 of Starlight Stadium! This episode will take you through the Verification, Analysis, and Report Writing stages of ODIHR’s Human Rights Monitoring Cycle. Enjoy, and thank you for playing!  

Starlight Stadium was developed to integrate learning objectives that cover the entire human rights monitoring methodology – these objectives can be reviewed here.

The learning objectives for Episode 3 are as follows:

Verification

During Verification, you will:

  1. Remember that verification is a precondition to analysis and one should never act on information that is not verified.
  2. Understand how the human rights monitoring principles apply to verification and are interconnected.
  3. Understand that for information to be verified, one must assess its source reliability, the information’s credibility, its consistency, and its coherence with the broader context.
  4. Understand it is important to consider the reliability of your sources of information when verifying.
  5. Be able to acknowledge your own personal biases in verifying (and analysing) information, when assessing how it fits into the context of the situation.
  6. Understand the various means through which information can be corroborated.
  7. Appraise information via cross-checking with multiple sources.
  8. Recall that digital methods can be used to verify information.
Analysis

During analysis, you will: 

  1. Comprehend the different components of analysis.
  2. Understand the importance of legality, legitimacy and proportionality tests on determining a human rights violation.
  3. Understand that the relevant actors/institutions and policies relating to the human rights problems being addressed must be identified.
  4. Understand the role that contextualisation plays in analysis.
  5. Understand how to assess the level of responsibility of the duty bearer.
  6. Understand that it is necessary to identify the legal/normative implications of the human rights problem.
  7. Understand how to draw conclusions on the human rights issue based on the result of the analysis.
Report Writing

During report writing, you will: 

  1. Be able to effectively structure a human rights report based on six essential sections: Table of Contents, Executive Summary, Methodology, Findings, Recommendations, and Legal Framework.
  2. Recall the key content that goes into the Executive Summary and Methodology sections of a report.
  3. Be able to recognize SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Result-oriented/Relevant, Time-Bound) recommendations.
  4. Understand that key human rights monitoring principles must be mainstreamed throughout reporting.
  5. Understand the necessity for source confidentiality.
  6. Understand the importance of focusing the report on state actions.
  7. Understand the importance of including an intersectional perspective in your report.

We’d appreciate any feedback you could provide about your playing and learning experience. After playing, to help us improve, please fill out this form or email us at hrdcapacitybuilding@odihr.pl. 

Starlight Stadium serves as a method through which players can learn about human rights monitoring and apply what they’ve learned to a simulated monitoring mission. Human rights monitoring is complex, and although care has been put in the game to include nuances that exist within human rights defenders’ environments, please remember that this game is a simplification of reality, and that your situation as a human rights defender may differ from the situations presented in Balronia. 

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