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Alan
Zelim Skurbaty
Alan Zelim Skurbaty, born
25.08.1953, Swedish, Ph.D.of Laws, International Law of
Human Rights; since August 2004, human rights adviser/expert
with OSCE, providing human rights advisory services to the
Central and Municipal Authorities in Kosovo (Serbia &
Montenegro).
Education
Dr Jur. (Ph.D.) Doctor of
Laws, International Law of Human Rights, Lund University
1998. Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (Moscow University)
1989.
Master degree in history and political science at Tblisi
State University 1979.
Experience
Serbia & Montenegro,
since August 2004 -
Human Rights Expert/Adviser in Serbia & Montenegro:
providing human rights advisory services to the Central and
Municipal Authorities in Kosovo; hub election observer
during in-person voting in Montenegro
Vietnam, February - May
2004
Team Leader of International and Local Experts in the EC
Mission to Vietnam "Institutional Support Programme to
Vietnam". Finalized parameters for EC support to Vietnam in
its legislative and public administration reforms for
2005-2007.
Copenhagen 07.1999 -
12.2003
Senior Research Fellow at the The Danish Center for Human
Rights. Human rights-oriented research, teaching,
supervising master and Ph.D. students, writing statements
for the Danish Parliament on matters concerning human rights
problems.
Geneva 04. 99 - 07. 99
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Human
Rights Officer (P4), Geographical Desk Officer for the
former USSR: Human rights monitoring, reporting, national
institution building.
Kosovo (fmr.Yugoslavia).
04.98 - 26.03.99
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Human
Rights Officer (P4); Human rights monitoring.
Brussels May - July 2003
Special Rapporteur of the All-European Human Rights
Conference for European Commission on strengthening
relations of the EU with NGOs in the fields of human rights,
democratisation and good governance & fashioning future
strategic direction of the EIDHR in mainstreaming human
rights in external relations/assistance.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, May
2003 - July 2003
EU expert of Identification and Programming Mission to
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Elaboration of a detailed
programming action plan and writing a report and
recommendaitons for the European Commission (European
Initiative for the Democracy and Human Rights) on its future
human rights policy in the country and the region
Russia (Moscow) spring
2003
Legal Expert and Evaluator of the TACIS (EU) Project
"Improving Inter-Ethnic Relations and Culture of Tolerance
in Russia".
Sweden-Denmark
(Copenhagen-Lund), February-April 2002
Conference organizer. Book Editor. Secured funding and
organized a jointly sponsored (Danish Center for Human
Rights, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, the UN Working Group on
Minorities) international conference on "Autonomist,
Secessionist and Integrationist Approaches to Minority
Protection" in Copenhagen.
Vietnam, September 2001 -
December 2003
Running the project with the Vietnamese Center for Human
Rights, Hanoi Academy of Sciences and published on of the
first human rights manuals in Vitnam on the rule of law,
legislative reforms and incorporation of international human
rights instruments into domestic law.
Major
Publications
Book
"As if Peoples Mattered: Critical Appraisal of 'Peoples'
and 'Minorities' from the International Human Rights
Perspective and Beyond" (The Hague/Boston/London:
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2000), xxvii + 498 pp.
(See
review by Johan Galtung
also published in Nordic Journal of International Law, vol.
70, NN 1-2 2001, pp. 263-265; and the one by Thomas W.
Simon, As if Law Mattered, in Journal of Human Rights, Vol.
1, No. 4 (December 2002), pp. 609-615.
Book
"Bibliographical Overview of the Literature in Human
Rights Training" (Lund: Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Publication Series, 2000), pp. 69
Book (ed.)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the two
1966 International Human Rights Covenants and their Domestic
Implementation in Vietnam (Hanoi: Vietnamese Academy of
Sciences and the Danish Center for Human Rights, 2002), 306
pp., ISSBN509-BTT-138-1988
Book (ed.)
Beyond
a One-Dimensional State: An Emerging Right to
Autonomy?
(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden/Boston 2005) The Raoul
Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library Vol. 19, pp.
638.
Article
"The Meaning of Autonomy. Introduction", in Beyond a
One-Dimensional State: An Emerging Right To Autonomy?
(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden/Boston 2005) The Raoul
Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library Vol. 19, pp.
29.
Article
Den Danske Debat om Lejesoldater ("The Danish Debate on
Mercenaries", in Danish), in Mennesker og Rettigheter
(the All-Scandinavian Journal "People and Human
Rights"), N1/2, 2000, pp. 77-88
Essay Review: Pentassuglia,
G., Defining "Minority" in International Law: A Critical
appraisal (Rovaniemi: Lapland's University Press, 2000),
in: Nordic Journal of International Law, 71: 189-198, 2002),
pp. 10.
Article "An Unfolding Case
of a Genocide: Chechnya, World Order and the 'Right to Be
Left Alone'", in: Nordic Journal of International
Law, (1995) Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 501-555
Alan Skurbaty became TFF
Associate in autumn 2004.
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