UN, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Situations

Nigel D. White is a Professor of International Organisations in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, and currently Head of the School. His publications include Keeping the Peace: The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, The UN System: Toward International Justice and The Law of International Organisations. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law.

Dirk Klaasen is a Research Fellow in the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham.

Contributors Include:

• Christine Bell is Professor of Law, Transnational Justice Institute, University of Ulster. She is a former Member of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the Belfast Agreement.
• Marcus Brand is a Special Adviser to the Director of the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw. He previously served with the OSCE in Kosovo.
• Professor John P. Cerone is Director of the Center for International Law and Policy at the New England School of Law. He worked as a Human Rights Legal Advisor witht he UN Mission in Kosovo and L0egal Advisor to the UN Mission in Sierra Leone.
• Dr. Robert Cryer is Lecuturer in law at the Nottingham School of Law. He was a Lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2001.
• Dr. Annemarie Devereux is a lawyer and academic who specialises in international human rights law and constitutional law. She has worked in the UN Office of Legal Advisor, East Timor.
• Dr. Tony Evans is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Southampton. Recent publications include The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective and an edited volume, Human Rights Fifty Years On: A Reappraisal.
• Dr. L.M. Handrahan is an independent scholar/practitioner. She is the author of Gender: Ethnic War and Modern Peace and Gendering Ethnicity.
• Caroline Hughes is a Lecturer in the School of Politics of the University of Nottingham and a South-East Asia specialist, whose work to date has focused on aspects of democratization in post-war Cambodia.
• Lt. Col. Michael J. Kelly is currently Director of the Military Law Centre in the Australian Defense Force (ADF) Legal Office and Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, which is a joint venture between the Australian Department of Defense and the University of Melbourne. Col. Kelly has substantial operational experience having been deployed in Somalia, Bosina and East Timor.
• Karen Kenny is a Barrister and independent specialist in international human rights fieldwork. Previously she was a UN officer appointed to plan and conceptualise the UN’s Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR). She served with the first UN Human rights operation in El Salvador (ONUSAL).
• Dirk Klaasen  (See Above).
• Boris Kondoch is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Law of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. He is Managing Editor of the journal International Peacekeeping, which has been transformed into the Yearbook of International Operations.
• Milburn Line is currently Operations Manager of a USAID program in Guatemala. He worked for the OSCE Mission in Bosinia and Hercegovina from 1996 to 2000. Previously he worked for two years as a Human Rights Observer in the United Nations Human Rights Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA).
• Norah Niland has worked for most of her life with the UN, but has alternated this with working for a number of NGOs. From 1999 to 2002 she worked in Afghanistan as the Senior Human Rights Advisor to the UN Coordinator's Office.
• Michael O’Flaherty is Reader in Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. He was appointed Human Rights Advisor to the UN mission in Sierra Leone in April 1998, and served as Chief of its Human Rights Section until January 2000. Previously he established the UN human rights field program in Bosina and Hercegovina and was human rights advisor for implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
• Vanessa Pupavac is a Lecturer in the School of Politics of the University of Nottingham. Trained as a solicitor, she has previously worked at the UN Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Hague and the OSCE in Bosnia.
• Dr. Guglielmo Verdirame is Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of the books: Rights in Exile and UN Accountabilty for Human Rughts Violations.
• Nigel White (See Above)
• Dr. Ralph Wilde is Lecturer in Laws at University College London, where he teaches international law. He previously taught at Cambridge and Yale Law School and is Chair of the International Organizations Committee of the American Society of International Law (ASIL).

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