The Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory and Practice

Professor Michael O'Flaherty

Jan 2013 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

About this ebook

This volume assesses the development of human rights field operations of the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations. It makes a substantial contribution to the debate and understanding with regard to the sector's underlying doctrine. The book, unprecedented in its scope, addresses the range of aspects of the nature, role and activities of field operations. It draws together the reflections of academics, policy makers and field practitioners. Its analysis is located within the context of applicable normative and ethical frameworks, assessment of former and current practice and examination of complementary and analogous experiences.

The book will be an essential resource for all those actively involved in human rights field work as well as for policy makers and academics and students involved in human rights research.

About the author

Michael O'Flaherty is Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham, UK. He is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and former Head of UN Human Rights programmes in Bosnia and Sierra Leone.

Michael O'Flaherty, Nicholas Howen, Nigel D. White, Marco Odello, George Ulrich, Daniel Moeckli, Manfred Nowak, Bertrand G. Ramcharan, William G. O'Neill, David Marshall, Karin Landgren, Maria Stavropoulou, Alain Aeschlimann, Liam Mahony, Patrick Burgess, Todd Howland, Milburn Line, Susanne Ringgaard-Pedersen, Annette Lyth, Kevin Turner, Bibliography.