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Papers by Elsa Stamatopoulou

Routledge eBooks, May 21, 2024

Brill | Nijhoff eBooks, 2007

Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently c... more Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently commercially available that would support space analysis for outfit h i t design and planning. The long term objective is to ident* and evaluate specific software packages or combinations of packages that can be employed in the development of build strategies and the early stage design of sfupboard spaces, particularly machnery spaces. The entire University of Michigan library system was searched for pertinent literature about shipbuilding and other industries where spacial planning is a critical design element. Specific resources utilized included the NSRP documentation center, the UMTRI library, the Kresge Business Library, the Dow Engineering Libran and the School of Art and Architecture l i b q. The overall conclusion of the research effort is that there is not a currently available commercial sohvare package that will automate the spacial arrangements problem. However, there is current research that has resulted in working prototypes. and there are available commercial packages that. in combination with each other, will offer a riable solution. The Archtecture and Civil Engineering community has made the most progress in the development of a specific tool that appears to address the issues of concern. ABACUS (Architectural Case Based Design System) has been heloped into a working prototype at the department of Architecture. Eidenossische Techrusche Hochschule. Zurich, Switzerland It is a Case Based Design system implemented in LISP and AutoLISP and using Autocad as a graphic engine. Other tools of interest include Case Based Design and Case Based Reasoning sohare protoopes, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based systems without graphical engines, and parametric design packages that maintain topographical relationships. Knowledge aided design Opt imization-based computer-aided model ling and design :proceedings of the first working conference of the new IFIPTC 7.

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, May 18, 2023

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently c... more Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently commercially available that would support space analysis for outfit h i t design and planning. The long term objective is to ident* and evaluate specific software packages or combinations of packages that can be employed in the development of build strategies and the early stage design of sfupboard spaces, particularly machnery spaces. The entire University of Michigan library system was searched for pertinent literature about shipbuilding and other industries where spacial planning is a critical design element. Specific resources utilized included the NSRP documentation center, the UMTRI library, the Kresge Business Library, the Dow Engineering Libran and the School of Art and Architecture l i b q. The overall conclusion of the research effort is that there is not a currently available commercial sohvare package that will automate the spacial arrangements problem. However, there is current research that has resulted in working prototypes. and there are available commercial packages that. in combination with each other, will offer a riable solution. The Archtecture and Civil Engineering community has made the most progress in the development of a specific tool that appears to address the issues of concern. ABACUS (Architectural Case Based Design System) has been heloped into a working prototype at the department of Architecture. Eidenossische Techrusche Hochschule. Zurich, Switzerland It is a Case Based Design system implemented in LISP and AutoLISP and using Autocad as a graphic engine. Other tools of interest include Case Based Design and Case Based Reasoning sohare protoopes, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based systems without graphical engines, and parametric design packages that maintain topographical relationships. Knowledge aided design Opt imization-based computer-aided model ling and design :proceedings of the first working conference of the new IFIPTC 7.

Human Rights Quarterly, 1994

... The same is true about the appearance of African indigenous representatives before the Workin... more ... The same is true about the appearance of African indigenous representatives before the Working Group in recent years ... of Namibia; Ogoni from Nigeria; Minorities Twa Du from Rwanda, East Pastorialist, Hadzabe People, Korongoro Integrated Peoples Oriented to ...

The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, Nov 18, 2023

Access to justice is a demand that increasingly underlies the major debates of our time, whether ... more Access to justice is a demand that increasingly underlies the major debates of our time, whether in the area of economic, political and social development, peace, human rights or culture. The issue is a bridge between the past, the present and the future as it refers to the entrenched marginalization of and systemic discrimination against members or groups of society. Access to justice is the stepping stone to address or remedy injustice. No area of human endeavor has given more meaning and normative content to the concept of access to justice than the human rights area, including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The solid international human rights framework developed in the past seventy years and the ways it is being given depth through the interpretation of international human rights bodies is providing access to justice with the normative contours and specificity needed for practical implementation. Thus, access to justice is at once a substant...

International Responses to Traumatic Stress, 2018

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

The drafting history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reveals the difficulties in dea... more The drafting history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reveals the difficulties in dealing with cultural rights. The proposal on cultural genocide in the context of drafting the Genocide Convention at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly was finally put aside with the argument that the issue of cultural groups would be dealt with by the Third Committee in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The drafting of Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was done with remarkably little debate by comparison to that of Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Women’s human rights have always been the site of the most virulent expressions of cultural relativism. The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance compensated, in a sense, for the overall marginalization of cultural rights by UN bodies until now.Keywords: cultural relativism; cultural rights; Genocide Convention; racial discrimination; racism; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Women’s human rights; xenophobia

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This chapter purposes to state what cultural rights are, i.e. to analyze the normative content of... more This chapter purposes to state what cultural rights are, i.e. to analyze the normative content of the right to participate in cultural life from an international law point of view. It analyzes the normative content of the right to participate in cultural life. The chapter discusses the complexity of the content and concept of culture, which has contributed the greatest difficulties in defining cultural rights. Culture is inseparable from the quality of being human, from the sense of self-respect of a person or a community. Culture is about human relations and thus constant cross-influencing, cross-fertilization, conflict and change are part of culture. When the UN was preparing Article 27 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights on the right to participate in cultural life, there was hardly any clear constitutional precedent that the drafters could rely on regarding cultural rights.Keywords: cultural life; cultural rights; international law; normative content; right to participate; Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This chapter provides an overview of international standards regarding the right to participate i... more This chapter provides an overview of international standards regarding the right to participate in cultural life as well as the practice of relevant international bodies and mechanisms in terms of cultural rights. The right to participate in cultural life is boldly enshrined in article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A comprehensive review of human rights treaty bodies since the time of their inception in general reveals inadequate attention to cultural rights, with some exceptions. The General Assembly resolution boldly calls on the High Commissioner to promote and protect all human rights. One of the results of the approach that UNESCO follows is that it produces too many international instruments too fast, without them necessarily having gone through the kind of preparation and collection of views required for a standard-setting text of universal character.Keywords: cultural life; cultural rights; General Assembly resolution; human rights treaty bodies; international instruments; right to participate; UNESCO; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This appendix section of the book Cultural Rights in International Law: Article 27 of the Univers... more This appendix section of the book Cultural Rights in International Law: Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Beyond contains an overview of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe national constitutions. Kenya is analyzed due to the fact of the existence of indigenous peoples in its territory. Tunisia has reported regularly to human rights treaty bodies, and there is adequate documentation that allows for a more complete overview of the situation. Guatemala has one of the most advanced systems of legislation regarding cultural rights. Bangladesh is home to various indigenous peoples, most of them living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. An examination of Bulgaria and Ukraine is useful in light of recent history, given the interest demonstrated by both to accommodate minority situations in their own re-definition of themselves as contemporary pluralistic democracies.Keywords: national constitutions; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

Choice Reviews Online, 1999

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond DANIELI YaelStamatopoulou Elsa.

First and foremost, the co-editors and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program of the Institute fo... more First and foremost, the co-editors and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University would like to thank the authors of this book, Indigenous young people from the seven socio-cultural regions of the world, and also the three Co-Chairs of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, for attending to this book with such care and dedication. Each author was chosen by her/his own region through consensus processes, a participatory paradigm that we can all learn from. We are grateful to Seqininnguaq Lynge Poulsen who, in addition to her article, offered her inspiring artwork for the cover of this book.

ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L., 1998

282 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law [Vol. 5: 281 rights, including the institutio... more 282 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law [Vol. 5: 281 rights, including the institution of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights. II. Evaluation: A Humbling Process The Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR we commemorate this year is a unique opportunity ...

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2004

especially of the more essentialist interpretations of the [culture] concept, to the point of que... more especially of the more essentialist interpretations of the [culture] concept, to the point of querying its usefulness at all, they found themselves witnessing, often during fieldwork, the increasing prevalence of 'culture' as a rhetorical object-often in a highly essentialized form-in contemporary political talk" (3). 1 Just as "we" discover that culture is constructed, fluid, and ever-inventive, "they" begin to articulate demands for rights in terms of a cultural identity asserted to be primordial and fixed. This historical non-coincidence has been noticed by various parties and has been interpreted in various ways. According to David Scott, the so-called "natives" have every reason to suspect these newfangled anti-essentialist ideas, indispensable though such ideas may seem to Western academic theorists, himself included: "For whom is culture partial, unbounded, heterogeneous, hybrid, and so on, the anthropologist or the native?" (101). 2 The new concept of culture as hybrid, heterogeneous, and processual is "merely the most recent way of conceiving and explaining otherness, of putting otherness in its place" (106). It suits "post-cold war North Atlantic liberalism" (107), for it offers a way of playing down "ideological conflicts" (107). 3 As

Routledge eBooks, May 21, 2024

Brill | Nijhoff eBooks, 2007

Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently c... more Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently commercially available that would support space analysis for outfit h i t design and planning. The long term objective is to ident* and evaluate specific software packages or combinations of packages that can be employed in the development of build strategies and the early stage design of sfupboard spaces, particularly machnery spaces. The entire University of Michigan library system was searched for pertinent literature about shipbuilding and other industries where spacial planning is a critical design element. Specific resources utilized included the NSRP documentation center, the UMTRI library, the Kresge Business Library, the Dow Engineering Libran and the School of Art and Architecture l i b q. The overall conclusion of the research effort is that there is not a currently available commercial sohvare package that will automate the spacial arrangements problem. However, there is current research that has resulted in working prototypes. and there are available commercial packages that. in combination with each other, will offer a riable solution. The Archtecture and Civil Engineering community has made the most progress in the development of a specific tool that appears to address the issues of concern. ABACUS (Architectural Case Based Design System) has been heloped into a working prototype at the department of Architecture. Eidenossische Techrusche Hochschule. Zurich, Switzerland It is a Case Based Design system implemented in LISP and AutoLISP and using Autocad as a graphic engine. Other tools of interest include Case Based Design and Case Based Reasoning sohare protoopes, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based systems without graphical engines, and parametric design packages that maintain topographical relationships. Knowledge aided design Opt imization-based computer-aided model ling and design :proceedings of the first working conference of the new IFIPTC 7.

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, May 18, 2023

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently c... more Division. conducted an extensive literature search to i d e n e and evaluate software currently commercially available that would support space analysis for outfit h i t design and planning. The long term objective is to ident* and evaluate specific software packages or combinations of packages that can be employed in the development of build strategies and the early stage design of sfupboard spaces, particularly machnery spaces. The entire University of Michigan library system was searched for pertinent literature about shipbuilding and other industries where spacial planning is a critical design element. Specific resources utilized included the NSRP documentation center, the UMTRI library, the Kresge Business Library, the Dow Engineering Libran and the School of Art and Architecture l i b q. The overall conclusion of the research effort is that there is not a currently available commercial sohvare package that will automate the spacial arrangements problem. However, there is current research that has resulted in working prototypes. and there are available commercial packages that. in combination with each other, will offer a riable solution. The Archtecture and Civil Engineering community has made the most progress in the development of a specific tool that appears to address the issues of concern. ABACUS (Architectural Case Based Design System) has been heloped into a working prototype at the department of Architecture. Eidenossische Techrusche Hochschule. Zurich, Switzerland It is a Case Based Design system implemented in LISP and AutoLISP and using Autocad as a graphic engine. Other tools of interest include Case Based Design and Case Based Reasoning sohare protoopes, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based systems without graphical engines, and parametric design packages that maintain topographical relationships. Knowledge aided design Opt imization-based computer-aided model ling and design :proceedings of the first working conference of the new IFIPTC 7.

Human Rights Quarterly, 1994

... The same is true about the appearance of African indigenous representatives before the Workin... more ... The same is true about the appearance of African indigenous representatives before the Working Group in recent years ... of Namibia; Ogoni from Nigeria; Minorities Twa Du from Rwanda, East Pastorialist, Hadzabe People, Korongoro Integrated Peoples Oriented to ...

The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, Nov 18, 2023

Access to justice is a demand that increasingly underlies the major debates of our time, whether ... more Access to justice is a demand that increasingly underlies the major debates of our time, whether in the area of economic, political and social development, peace, human rights or culture. The issue is a bridge between the past, the present and the future as it refers to the entrenched marginalization of and systemic discrimination against members or groups of society. Access to justice is the stepping stone to address or remedy injustice. No area of human endeavor has given more meaning and normative content to the concept of access to justice than the human rights area, including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The solid international human rights framework developed in the past seventy years and the ways it is being given depth through the interpretation of international human rights bodies is providing access to justice with the normative contours and specificity needed for practical implementation. Thus, access to justice is at once a substant...

International Responses to Traumatic Stress, 2018

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

The drafting history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reveals the difficulties in dea... more The drafting history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reveals the difficulties in dealing with cultural rights. The proposal on cultural genocide in the context of drafting the Genocide Convention at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly was finally put aside with the argument that the issue of cultural groups would be dealt with by the Third Committee in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The drafting of Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was done with remarkably little debate by comparison to that of Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Women’s human rights have always been the site of the most virulent expressions of cultural relativism. The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance compensated, in a sense, for the overall marginalization of cultural rights by UN bodies until now.Keywords: cultural relativism; cultural rights; Genocide Convention; racial discrimination; racism; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Women’s human rights; xenophobia

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This chapter purposes to state what cultural rights are, i.e. to analyze the normative content of... more This chapter purposes to state what cultural rights are, i.e. to analyze the normative content of the right to participate in cultural life from an international law point of view. It analyzes the normative content of the right to participate in cultural life. The chapter discusses the complexity of the content and concept of culture, which has contributed the greatest difficulties in defining cultural rights. Culture is inseparable from the quality of being human, from the sense of self-respect of a person or a community. Culture is about human relations and thus constant cross-influencing, cross-fertilization, conflict and change are part of culture. When the UN was preparing Article 27 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights on the right to participate in cultural life, there was hardly any clear constitutional precedent that the drafters could rely on regarding cultural rights.Keywords: cultural life; cultural rights; international law; normative content; right to participate; Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This chapter provides an overview of international standards regarding the right to participate i... more This chapter provides an overview of international standards regarding the right to participate in cultural life as well as the practice of relevant international bodies and mechanisms in terms of cultural rights. The right to participate in cultural life is boldly enshrined in article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A comprehensive review of human rights treaty bodies since the time of their inception in general reveals inadequate attention to cultural rights, with some exceptions. The General Assembly resolution boldly calls on the High Commissioner to promote and protect all human rights. One of the results of the approach that UNESCO follows is that it produces too many international instruments too fast, without them necessarily having gone through the kind of preparation and collection of views required for a standard-setting text of universal character.Keywords: cultural life; cultural rights; General Assembly resolution; human rights treaty bodies; international instruments; right to participate; UNESCO; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

This appendix section of the book Cultural Rights in International Law: Article 27 of the Univers... more This appendix section of the book Cultural Rights in International Law: Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Beyond contains an overview of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe national constitutions. Kenya is analyzed due to the fact of the existence of indigenous peoples in its territory. Tunisia has reported regularly to human rights treaty bodies, and there is adequate documentation that allows for a more complete overview of the situation. Guatemala has one of the most advanced systems of legislation regarding cultural rights. Bangladesh is home to various indigenous peoples, most of them living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. An examination of Bulgaria and Ukraine is useful in light of recent history, given the interest demonstrated by both to accommodate minority situations in their own re-definition of themselves as contemporary pluralistic democracies.Keywords: national constitutions; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Cultural Rights in International Law, 2007

Choice Reviews Online, 1999

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond DANIELI YaelStamatopoulou Elsa.

First and foremost, the co-editors and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program of the Institute fo... more First and foremost, the co-editors and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University would like to thank the authors of this book, Indigenous young people from the seven socio-cultural regions of the world, and also the three Co-Chairs of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, for attending to this book with such care and dedication. Each author was chosen by her/his own region through consensus processes, a participatory paradigm that we can all learn from. We are grateful to Seqininnguaq Lynge Poulsen who, in addition to her article, offered her inspiring artwork for the cover of this book.

ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L., 1998

282 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law [Vol. 5: 281 rights, including the institutio... more 282 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law [Vol. 5: 281 rights, including the institution of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights. II. Evaluation: A Humbling Process The Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR we commemorate this year is a unique opportunity ...

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2004

especially of the more essentialist interpretations of the [culture] concept, to the point of que... more especially of the more essentialist interpretations of the [culture] concept, to the point of querying its usefulness at all, they found themselves witnessing, often during fieldwork, the increasing prevalence of 'culture' as a rhetorical object-often in a highly essentialized form-in contemporary political talk" (3). 1 Just as "we" discover that culture is constructed, fluid, and ever-inventive, "they" begin to articulate demands for rights in terms of a cultural identity asserted to be primordial and fixed. This historical non-coincidence has been noticed by various parties and has been interpreted in various ways. According to David Scott, the so-called "natives" have every reason to suspect these newfangled anti-essentialist ideas, indispensable though such ideas may seem to Western academic theorists, himself included: "For whom is culture partial, unbounded, heterogeneous, hybrid, and so on, the anthropologist or the native?" (101). 2 The new concept of culture as hybrid, heterogeneous, and processual is "merely the most recent way of conceiving and explaining otherness, of putting otherness in its place" (106). It suits "post-cold war North Atlantic liberalism" (107), for it offers a way of playing down "ideological conflicts" (107). 3 As