Legitimate (multilevel) crisis management from the perspective of human rights, rights and position of minorities, and non-discrimination: Conceptual and methodological issues, and literature review

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, Covid-19 pandemic and related crisis management dominate media and scholarly literature since 2020. The literature review of scholarly publications shows that they mention human rights, their limitation(s) and suspension, impact of crisis management on diverse minorities, democracy and its erosion, democratic participation in and legitimacy of crisis management. However, only a few focus on those issues. This paper addresses the impacts of crisis management in diverse environments on human rights, minority rights and protection of minorities as well as the principle of non-discrimination. Reflecting complexity and dynamics of those phenomena, the multi- and interdisciplinary project combines quantitative and qualitative research approaches and methods. Qualitative approaches are recognized the most suitable for studying the perceptions of conflict management and its legitimacy of persons belonging to diverse minorities.