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'Human Rights in Armed Conflict'
Professor Eibe Riedel from the University of Mannheim, Germany, will give a guest lecture on 'Human Rights in Armed Conflict'.
The lecture will look at economic, social and cultural rights (esc-rights) in armed conflict and will first present salient features of esc-rights protection at the universal level. Next, provision of esc-rights having relevance for armed conflict will be looked at, by discussing recent monitoring practice, such as with Afghanistan, Colombia, DR Congo and Sri Lanka. A sliding scale of conflict situations will then be addressed, ranging from peacetime, via sporadic and larger-scale outbreaks of violence (e.g., Myanmar, Ukraine), insurrections and civil war, followed by a brief review of international armed conflicts and post-conflict situations and the human rights application in those situations. The ‘ius post bellum’ situations will be outlined very briefly by looking at occupation regimes, such as in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories, transformation situations, forms of humanitarian interventions or missions and the ‘responsibility to protect’- theory. The presentation will then focus on the disputed inter-relationship of esc-rights and international humanitarian law, and will conclude with an assessment of the implementation and enforcement side of both regimes of international law.
Eibe Riedel is emeritus professor of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law at the University of Mannheim/Germany, and a former member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and cultural rights, Geneva. He is a judge at the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration, chairs the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Human Rights, Berlin, and is a director of the Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health of the universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, as well as a director and founder of the Mannheim Institute of Transport Law, Inland Navigation Law. Prof. Riedel was Swiss Chair of Human Rights and is presently a visiting professor at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He also is honorary adjunct professor at the University of Adelaide. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Human Rights, Berlin. He has written widely on human rights, most recently on the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR in Essays in Honour of Judge Bruno Simma, Oxford 2011, 574-589; on ‘Global Human Rights at the Crossroads: ‘Strengthening’ or ‘Reforming’ the System’, in Festschrift Eckart Klein, Berlin 2013, 1289-1306; and on ‘ESC-Rights in Armed Conflict’ in Andrew Clapham (ed.), Oxford Handbook on International Law (2014), chapter 18, 441-468.
- Speaker
- Emeritus Professor Eibe Riedel
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- New Kng's NK1