New approaches to combat the misuse of blacklists as tools of repression. This project aims to define the extent of malicious blacklisting used by authoritarian states and their alliances to justify p

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New approaches to combat the misuse of blacklists as tools of repression. This project aims to define the extent of malicious blacklisting used by authoritarian states and their alliances to justify persecution of dissenters/minorities. The problem is growing, as full democracies become less prevalent and as global non-government organisations are increasingly targeted. Using innovative machine learning tools to decipher hidden blacklisting regimes, this research will deliver the first comprehensive, publicly available and searchable dataset of global blacklists; strong political analysis of norms for current blacklisting modalities; and, critically, policies to challenge or avoid malicious blacklisting. Outputs are likely to benefit international governance and support Australia’s commitments to human rights.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 4408 - Political Science. Lead: Prof Timothy Legrand