Human Rights Diplomacy

The first volume of the new Nottingham Studies on Human Rights series; this collection of 15 essays, written by academics and practitioners, explores the role of diplomatic negotiation and persuasion for promoting and protecting human rights. Topics include the parameters of contestation in human rights discourse, the key characteristics of human rights diplomacy, the experiences and activities of the Spanish human rights ambassador, the role of small states in human rights diplomacy, regional inter-governmental organizations' roles in human rights diplomacy, the nature of the European Union's human rights diplomacy, the role of United Nations human rights treaty bodies as diplomatic actors, the role of the UN Secretary-General, international human rights conferences as an arena for multilateral human rights diplomacy, national human rights institutions as diplomacy actors, and the theory of multi-track/multi-stakeholder approaches to human rights diplomacy. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Michael O’Flaherty is Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and holds the Chair in Applied Human Rights at the University of Nottingham. He serves as Vice-chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Previously he held a number of senior positions with the United Nations, both at headquarters and in the field.Zdzislaw Kedzia holds the Chair of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, and is a Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He previously worked for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Polish diplomatic service. His teaching and publications focus on international human rights law and constitutional law. Amrei Muller is a research assistant at the University of Zurich, School of Law. She recently obtained a PhD degree from the University of Nottingham. She was project officer for the project on Human Rights Diplomacy at the Human Rights Law Centre and has previously worked for the German Institute for Human Rights.George Ulrich is Rector of the Riga Graduate School of Law. He previously served as Secretary General of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation and as a Senior Researcher at the Danish Centre for Human Rights. His publications cover the philosophy of human rights, international medical ethics and professional ethics.