COST Action A28: Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy

Introduction

COST Action A28 is an EU funded international academic programme in which 16 academic institutes from 12 European countries participate. The Action has been initiated by the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) and is being coordinated by the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). The main objective of the Action is to increase and deepen knowledge on the functioning of national and international instruments devised to pursue human rights, and peace and security objectives in order to recommend modifications of the foreign policy of the European Union.

The Action focuses on the following instruments: peace keeping/enforcement; international criminal tribunals; development cooperation; preventive mechanisms, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE. For analysing the functioning of each of these instruments four Working Groups have been established, that are being monitored by a Management Committee (MC), consisting of representatives of each of the participating institutes. Prof Cees Flinterman, former director of SIM, is the Chair of the MC. Dr. Peter Malcontent is Executive Secretary and coordinates the Action that will receive funding for a period of four years and will end in 2008.

For more information see the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the Action on this website or call or mail:
Peter Malcontent
Secretariat MC COST Action A28
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)
Drift 15, 3512 BR Utrecht University
Phone (+31) 30 2538405
E-mail p.malcontent@law.uu.nl